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March 1, 1958

The Hockey News March 1, 1958

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;At the start of the third period of a game between the Rangers and Canadians here ou Saturday February 22, Maurice Richard and Red Sullivan, captains of their respective clubs, hoisted the Red Cross pennant to the Forum rafters, signifying the start of a Red Cross campaign for funds. Goaler Gump Worsley, at the start of the second period of the game had to be taken to the clinic for stitches to the head, after he was hit by the puck off a shot by Floyd Curry. In a matter of seconds Worsley&rsquo;s crease was splattered with blood from the cut. As Gump stood at centre-ice while Richard and Sullivan performed their task, the announcer asked please give a point of blood&rdquo;.Said Worsley: &ldquo;I just gave a pint down there, what more do they want from me?&rdquo; &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

Gump Felled, Then Watches Red Cross Pennant Hoisted

CHICAGO, III.&mdash;In the opinion of General Manager Tommy Ivan of the Chicago Black Hawks, Wayne Hillman, brother of Larry of Boston and Bud of Quebec, will be the best of the three.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s bigger and stronger than the other two. I&rsquo;ve seen him play for St. Catharines in the OHA junior league and 1 think he&rsquo;s going to be the best. He&rsquo;s tougher than the other two, I&rsquo;ll tell you that.&rdquo; &#9632;

Wayne Tops Others — Ivan

<div class="byline">By DICK McCRONE</div>HERSHEY, Pa.&mdash;Bobby Perreault is the man of the hour with Hershey fans.The ex-Rochester netminder, who was drafted last Spring as insurance against a recurrence of last season&rsquo;s goaltending dilemma, has performed admirably in the Hershey nets.Twice when Gil Mayer was sidelined, once with a case of pneumonia, and again when Gil came up with a sprained ankle, Perreault proved to be Johnny-On-The-Spot, taking over and coming up with an even better goals allowed mark than Mayer.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-06138/1683370-1-eng-US/f0010-062.jpg" title="f0010-06" width="279" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">Gil Mayer</figcaption></div>In 31 games, Perreault shows a 20-8-3 mark, compared to Mayer&rsquo;s 10-8-4 in 22 contests. In addition he has registered a Irio of shutouts to none for Mayer. His goals allowed average is a very creditable fb45, second only to Cleveland&rsquo;s Johnny Bower.Providence is the only&rsquo; club against which Perreault shows a deficit, the Reds winning three out of five from the Bears when he was in the nets. Buffalo has been his easiest victim, Bobby scoring seven triumphs in nine outings against the Bisons.His former teammates, the Rochester Amerks, have beaten him but twice in seven games and the Cleveland Barons, defending Calder Cup champions, have been unable to break through his stout defense in two appearances.In eight games with Springfield, the Indians have won but once, but they have gained a trio of deadlocks against Bobby&rsquo;s goaltending.Bobby, who&rsquo;has been called &ldquo;the best glove man in the AHL&rdquo; by &ldquo;Baz&rdquo; Bastien, the Bears&rsquo; business manager, was a much-traveled hockey player before the Bears plunked down $7,500 for him in the hockey draft last Spring. In addition to Hershey and Rochester, he has also performed for Providence, of the AHL, plus Sherbrooke, Montreal and Shawinigan of the Quebec League. He made one brief appearance in the National League in 1955-56 with the Montreal Canadiens, turning in a 2.00 goals allowed average in six games.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-07105/1683363-1-eng-US/f0010-072.jpg" title="f0010-07" width="504" height="850"><figcaption class="caption-body">He Pays OffBobby Perreault</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Perreault Proves Good Buy For Grizzly Bears

<div class="byline">By STAN HOUSTON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0007-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-01342/1682894-1-eng-US/f0007-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Leafs&rsquo; Man In A CrisisTIM HORTON</figcaption></div>TORONTO, Ont.&mdash;Timothy Horton may observe this St. Patrick&rsquo;s Day after all. After a long absence, the Luck of the Irish has finally begun courting him again.Because Toronto Maple Leaf hopes of playoff payoffs have become extremely remote, Timothy is not counting on sharing the green on that week when other good sons of Ireland will be wearing it, But the return of his luck in itself gives him adequate reason to celebrate.It was Tim&rsquo;s lack of luck that coach Billy Reay forwarded as the reason he kept the popular 28-year-old on the bench for most of the season. And until that luck changed, the veteran of seven Maple Leaf campaigns was convinced he would wind up the season walking the plank be had been riding so long &mdash; walking it toward another NHL city or the minors.Ironically, Horton came up off the bench just as the Leaf team went down; during a disasterous nine-day February stretch in which they lost four out of five crucial games. Reducing their playoff chances to a mere mathematical problem, Leafs collapsed before Detroit Red Wings twice and Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks once each.At the height of the crisis, Reay began desparately juggling his lineup. He summoned Gerry James, the western football sensation. from Rochester of the American League. He cut workhorse Rudy Migay, who had tolled down seven years in Leaf uniforms. He tried out two Marlboro juniors, forward Bob Nevin and defenseman Carl Brewer.And in the midst of shuffling, he dealt Hori on a new hand &mdash; as &ldquo;trouble shooting forward and defenseman.<h2>Thought He Would Be Traded</h2>It was at the beginning of the retreat that Tim was given his first opportunity to stretch his legs. As Bruins were administering a merciless 7-3 beating on Leafs right in Toronto. Tim was dispatched with the team&rsquo;s two penalty kilters, Migay and Paul Masnick, on a makeshift line.The game was lost already, but Pony Boy pretended he did not know, firing one goal, and setting up another to earn star of the night recognition for his brief third-period stint.Tim was convinced the trading block was his only destination when he wasn&rsquo;t used again for three games. But then, after Canadiens humbled Leafs 5-2 and Red Wings crushed them 8-3 in the next two Toronto home dates, he was given a defensive assignment in the next game at Detroit.Through two periods on defense he played steadier hockey than most of his playmates had done in weeks. And, when Reay moved him onto right wing for the third period, he destroyed Terry Sawchuk&rsquo;s brilliant bid for a shutout by scoring a goal while sparking new life into the Kid Line on which Brian Cullon centred Bob Pulford and Tim.&ldquo;He&rsquo;ll get lots of work from now on,&rdquo; Reay decided, nominating Tint for the same trouble-shooting role that started Ron Stewart&rsquo;s climb to stardom this Beaeou&ldquo;We re going to take advantage of his versatility by using him at both positions,&rdquo; Reay &ldquo;As soon as I see trouble anywhere, in goes Tim. Don&rsquo;t be surprised if, during a line shift, you just see him move from right wing back to defense. Or given back again on the next shift.&ldquo;His luck has finally changed. And that&rsquo;s the only reason he wasn&rsquo;t being played. Everytime I put him out, he&rsquo;d get a penalty or the other team would score. He was just unlucky.&rdquo;Horton&rsquo;s hex, however, was not restricted to penalties and enemy goals. Leaf acting manager Stafford Smythe traces it back through his entire career.&ldquo;He couldn&rsquo;t have worse luck if he tried,&rdquo; says Stafford. &ldquo;Every time he starts getting ahead, he gets hurt or something happens.&ldquo;Like two years ago. He&rsquo;d just reached the point where he was a second-team all-star and bang &mdash; he breaks a leg. It took him a year to get over that, and just when he starts going again, he hurts his knee.Even Tim&rsquo;s timing was bad on his knee injury this season. When he rejoined the club, it was in the midst of its hottest streak of the season &mdash; that 13 game stretch in which it lost only twice.The coach was not inclined to disrupt a winning combination in order to employ a player whose condition was doubtul after a long layoff. So Horton sat on the bench. And that, of course, did not improve his playing shape.<h2>A Vicious Circle</h2>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s vicious circle,&rdquo; Tim says. &ldquo;You&rsquo;re not sharp enough to play regularly and yet without regular play you can&rsquo;t get any sharper.&ldquo;Now that I&rsquo;ve played a couple of games, I feel better than I have in months. I don&rsquo;t care Whether I play defense or forward &mdash; or both. I have no preference, just so long as I play.&ldquo;When you sit on the bench as long as I did, there&rsquo;s only one thing you can think. The writing&rsquo;s on the wall and you&rsquo;re on the way Playing keeps you from brooding as well.&rdquo;The change in luck that let Horton play against can also change that writing on the wall. &#9632;

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Tini’s Lurk Changes - - - But Just In Time

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01217/1683956-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"></div>The scrappy Rangers are giving blood, sweat and 100% fight in their dash for second place in the NHL race. Here are some of the happenings during the past week with the Rangers in action both on the ice, in the dressing room and on the stitching table. Left: Gump Worsley, Rangers goaler caught by our cameraman as he sits in dressing room following 2-2 tie in Montreal. He took 14 stitches in head after being hit by puck &hellip; came back to play outstanding hockey. Next night he beat Toronto 4-2 and Rangers were three points up in second place. Right: Leapin Lou Fontinato gets stitched up after being high sticked in the mouth by Canadiens&rsquo; Andre Pronovost. Lou went to clinic, came back to play standout game. Bill Head, Canadiens medical expert patches him up.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-02144/1683949-1-eng-US/cover-022.jpg" title="Cover-02" width="1081" height="1616"></div><h2>Blues Protect The Side Of The Net That Counts</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-0360/1683942-1-eng-US/cover-032.jpg" title="Cover-03" width="2835" height="1318"><figcaption class="caption-body">No Lone Rangers: In the struggle for second place Gump Worsley has been a standout in Rangers&rsquo; goal. Since he was recalled by club from providence the new yorkers have been playing steadiest hockey of the season. Above, Worsley on guard as Leaf&rsquo;s Paul Masnick circles Rangers Bet while Duff is guarded by Foley (18) and Gendron (crossing in front of Worsleay).</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Rangers Give Blood And Sweat In Drive To Second

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich.&mdash;Let there be no confusion:The target tor Detroit Red Wings this season is more than merely qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs.The precise target is second place.And the same can be. said for New York Rangers and Boston Bruins, the two oilier teams locked closely with tile. Wings behind first-place Montreal.There are several reasons. One of course is that the club which finishes second collects more prestige &hellip; and more cash cut of the National Hockey League bonus pool.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-01300/1682352-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="269" height="447"><figcaption class="caption-body">Marshall Dann</figcaption></div>There also is an extra special reason this season. Third place looms as a real hot spot inasmuch as the club which finishes there will draw Montreal&rsquo;s powerful new champions in the first playoff round &mdash; an assignment with a dim future according to all appearances.Odds on reaching the Stanley Cup finals certainly look healthier if approach is attempted through the second vs. fourth semifinal seriesThe way New York, Detroit and Boston currently are standing, this battle for position should go down to the final week of the campaign, maybe even to the final night. And if any of them should slip, Toronto or Chicago are eager to get into the act.Critics of the NHL playoff system may want to mention in this connection that it might be more desireable for a team to finish fourth than third, considering the alternatives. This, they might point out, could produce the situation or a team wanting &hellip; eleven trying &hellip; to lose. It would be a most unhealthy set up.<h2>Detroit Lost Semi-Finals Three Times</h2>Best answer is that this is not a new circumstance, yet never in the long NHL history has there ever been a case of a team deliberately losing in an effort to juggle positions.While on the subject, all hope is not lost for the team which does land third and draws Montreal.In the modern NHL era the league champion has gone on to win the Stanley Cup only 11 cut of 19 limes. The eight seasons that the NHL titlist bowed in the playoffs, it happened six times in the opening round.For example, Detroit champions were, beaten in the semi-finals in 1951, 1953 and again in 1957. Similarly, Montreal&rsquo;s 1944-15 powerhouse was a first-round victim. Also the Rangers of 1942 and the Bruins of 1,940. &#9632;

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Dann Sees Nothing Hut Headaches For 3rd Place Finisher

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y&mdash;&ldquo;The New York Rangers will finish in second place.&rdquo;If you want to dispute the above, go argue with a dozen odd Blueshirts. They&rsquo;re the ones that said it. They mean it and they intend to prove to the four other mortal teams in the NHL that second place belongs to them.To a man, Rangers &mdash; the same guys who once had. dreams of first &mdash; can see no one beating them out of the runner-up slot.Here&rsquo;s how they explain it:DANNY LEW1CKI: Why not second? Except for Montreal, nobody&rsquo;s better than us.We&rsquo;ve got more balance than Boston. We have guys who can score. There&rsquo;s always a hot line on our club.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-0758/1682442-1-eng-US/f0002-072.jpg" title="f0002-07" width="250" height="376"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption></div>Detroit? I can&rsquo;t see them beating us out. All they&rsquo;re got is Gordie Howe. Besides, the schedule favors us from* here on. Chicago and Toronto are too far behind to make second.&rdquo;BILL GADSBY: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re just starting to roll now so I can&rsquo;t see why we won&rsquo;t finish second. Our defense has improved and we&rsquo;re always good for three or four goals a game.Sure, we have a tough time with Boston but we beat &rsquo;em last time and our guys are checking better than ever. As for Detroi, I think they&rsquo;re got a lousy (he used a different word) club.&rdquo;<h2>Hot And Cold &mdash; Win Some Big Ones</h2>LOU FONTINATO: &ldquo;I honestly think we deserve second place. After all we&rsquo;re playing well enough to get it. The guys are working hard and they&rsquo;ll put out a little extra in the stretch. Don&rsquo;t kid yourself, they&rsquo;re thinking about the money angle. That extra cash helps.&ldquo;I figure Boston for third and then Detroit.&rdquo;GERRY EOLEY: &ldquo;Why shouldn&rsquo;t we be second, we&rsquo;ve been there all year.&rdquo;JACK EVANS: &ldquo;Rangers second. Then Boston and Detroit&rdquo; No point in repeating what the other chaps think, they&rsquo;re all in accord with coach Phil Watson who for she past two months has chimed: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be second.&rdquo;Of course this talk is like goals scored in practice it means nothing. What will be closely observed is the manner in which the Rangers handle themselves in the next two weeks.Now reasonably certain of a playoff berth, it will be interesting to see whether they slip into another crisis situation or drive full speed ahead into second place, as they assert.For, this New York team has been one that repeatedly has sloughed off when it could have cemented a high position. Then, when an important game loomed &mdash; one that could put them close to the second division &mdash; the club responded with a crisp win.This repetitious pattern again developed the weekend of Feb. 16th.Watson&rsquo;s crew visited Chicago, just a point up on third place Boston and Detroit. They crowned the Black Hawks and returned to the Gotham to nip Boston to secure second for the time being.Money-players, hard-core pros that they are, the Blueshirts have responded to these so-call crucial games with victories time and again, only to follow them with a let-down period.Well, lately they&rsquo;ve been winning the occasional home game, something that is rather unusual with this New York club. It could be too, that they will keep winning the big ones and, as they predict, finish second.After all, Boston and Detroit are right on their tail. Hence every game is a &ldquo;big&rdquo; one. So, if form holds, the Rangers will win the &ldquo;big&rdquo; ones, finish second and make themselves look good as promotions.If they doing well, well let watson take care of that it.<h2>IPs A Rough Ride For Firey Phil</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04202/1682435-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="489" height="817"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05154/1682428-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="489" height="828"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06105/1682421-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="496" height="817"><figcaption class="caption-body">While his players are confident they will finish in second place coach Phil Watson finds it a rough, tough battle to maintain the pace. Above, against the Canadiens he watches his players make a few wrong moves, yells to them, walks behind the bench and finally buries his head in his hands wishing he was watching it all on TV.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Without Second Thought, N. Y., Players Call Second For Them

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Canadians&rsquo; hospital bills will be about the same this week, and the ranks of injured will neither swell, nor diminish. At least Dickie Moore can play with a broken at least Bert Olmstead had his cast removed from his had knee but Jean Guy Talbot still has his. However, the hairline fracture of his leg is healing. And, oh yes, Toe Blake can swallow now after a night in hospital, although Tom Johnson hurt his wrist and Richard&rsquo;s, (Maurice that is) foot still hurts. Other than that the Canadiens are healthy.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02284/1682390-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="275" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">Red Bowness</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03258/1682383-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="268" height="443"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dickie Moore</figcaption></div>Dickie Moore, the league&rsquo;s leading scorer and left and right winger deluxe, found himself with a cast on his left wrist last week after playing with a hairline fracture for three weeks. The fracture didn&rsquo;t show up until last week although, he was hurt in a collision with Marcel Pronovost in Detroit some three weeks earlier. Dickie had troupe holding a stick and his game suffered somewhat. It got to the point where he was unable to shoot the puck and finally doctors decided to take another look. This time the X-ray showed a slim break and a cast Was immediately ordered. He wore it for the first time in the game against the New York Rangers, Feb 22nd.But it was plain to see that playing with such a cast hampered him somewhat. He rolled the puck on the tip of his stick, pushing it with one hand, seldom gripping it with two. It hampered his play to the point where it hurt him to shoot a puck. For a while it was thought he would be out for the season. However, doctors made the cast for his wrist and left the thumb and fingers open.Harvey injured himself when he tried to cheek Bronco Horvath in a game against the Bruins on Saturday afternoon, February 15th. He missed the following game against the Chicago Black Hawks and Canadiens went with only three rearguards. Although treatment helped, Blake took no chances and called upon big Red Bowness from the Royals to fill in in case Harvey couldn&rsquo;t make it.But there were some good news in the Montreal camp this week, as well. Bert Olmstead (remember him) had the cast removed from his bad knee and is skating. He will be ready to go in about ten days. And Talbot, who suffered a hairline fracture of the leg about 15 days ago will have the cast removed this week.Blake, just so as he wouldn&rsquo;t he left out of things, spent a night at hospital last week to have a piece of dough removed from his esophagus. He had been bothered for about two weeks by what seemed to be an obstruction in the passage of his stomach. Toe said it al) started in Detroit after he had eaten a piece of Pizza Pie. He felt Something hard Icdged in his throat, but after a choking spell, he said the object appeared to have become dislodged. Since then the obstruction had moved closer to the stomach. In an overnight stay, doctors removed a piece of dough from the stomach passage.Canadiens, while they have had success against the Detroit Red-Wings this season have found them a costly club to play. Blake pearly choked there, Talbot broke a leg there, Moore fractured a wrist there and Johnson hurt his wrist there. Oh yes, Olmstead hurt his knee against Detroit, but. when they, were playing in Montreal. Only Harvey, amongst the latest injury crew picked another club in which to hurt himself. At that he injured himself checkin Horvath, a former Detroit chattel.It&rsquo;s doubtful that Blake will have a full complement of players this season. While Talbot and Olmstead will return within the next two weeks, it&rsquo;s doubtful that Geoffrion, who suffered a ruptured bowel some three weeks ago will see action again this season. Geoffrion will go to Florida for a month to try to gain some of the 15 pounds he lost while in hospital. That will bring him back about playoff time and there are many around here who are willing to bet that the Boomer will be in action for the post season activity.Blake&rsquo;s biggest concern right now is getting some power on his second line. With both Olmstead and Geoffrion on the sidelines Jean Beliveau has found himself with new playmates.And with all due respect to Floyd Curry, Beliveau misses Geoffrion about as much as Casey Stengel would miss Mickey Mantle. Curry has never been noted as a great goal scorer and there is no reason to believe he will become one because he&rsquo;s on a line with Beliveau. Floyd is a great team-man, a fine penalty killer and one of the most useful utility players in the league, but he&rsquo;s no Geoffrion and if Blake intends to add power he must add it to the second line. When Rocket Richard returned it relieved Bonin for duty opposite Beliveau on the left side. Now with Olmstead about to make his return, it will be interesting to see how Blake figures out his problem. He will have Olmstead and Bonin on left wing with Beliveau while Curry is on right. Whether he will shift Bonin to right with Olmstead and Beliveau is problematical. The best guess is that, he will leave Curry there with Olmstead and spot Bonin on the third line with Pronovost. There is also a chance that he might just shove Bob Turner up on right wing to see how he goes.These are problems Blake will have to figure out within the next three weeks, or before the playoffs at least. &#9632;

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Habs Find Red Wings Costly To Play With

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The great business depression which gripped the United States and Canada during the 1930s has had far-reaching and long-lasting effects, some of which are still being felt today.As an example there&rsquo;s the case of Larry Hillman, the sparkling young defenseman of the Boston Bruins.Without a depression Hillman probably would have been raised as a baseball player in Leamington, an Ontario town which is almost within sight of Detroit&rsquo;s Briggs Stadium.Because of the depression the husky blond was raised as hockey player in Kirkland Lake, an Ontario mining center far to the north of Briggs Stadium and other professional baseball strongholds.Since Hillman turned 21 only a few weeks ago he hardly qualifies as an authority on the depression but he knows the family&rsquo;s story.<h2>Hockey Kirkland Lakes&rsquo; Game</h2>Relates Larry:&ldquo;In those days my Dad was living in Leamington, which is 35 miles or so from Detroit and in an area where baseball has always been a big interest. The Detroit Tigers are the favorite team.&ldquo;Dad was a good player with a wonderful, arm and he could play just about any position. You know how some fellows pick out major leaguers who play the same positions and look upon them as idols? Well I guess Dad would have had to pick out the whole Detroit team when he was playing for the Brantford Red Sox in the InterCounty league, a fast one then and now.&ldquo;Anyway, when the depression got bad Leamington was affected like every-place else, so Dad decided to go up to Kirkland Lake to work. Our family has been there ever since&rdquo;.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s quite a difference between Leamington and Kirkland Lake. Up home the baseball season is short but the hockey season is long. So when my brothers Bud and Wayne and I came along Dad had to forget about raising three major league baseball players. He encouraged us to get into hockey, coached Us as much as he could, never hesitated to tell us our mistakes.&ldquo;He couldn&rsquo;t raise his sons to be baseball players,&rdquo; added Hillman with a grin, &ldquo;but I guess he feels just as good that wf&rsquo;re hockey players and we still play ball in the summertime.&rdquo;The Hillman household has always been a beehive of sports activity. Mr. Hillman married a sports fan and five children have been reared in a sports atmosphere.The oldest is Bud, whose right name is Floyd. He&rsquo;s a 24-year-old defenseman with the Quebec Aces in the Quebec league. He played six games with the Bruins last season and he&rsquo;s rated a potential member of the Varsity.Next comes Shirley, who is married to Chester Warshol of the Windsor Bulldogs.Larry is in the middle and below him are Wayne. 19-year-old defense star of the junior St. Catharines (Ont.) Tee-Pees and Sharon, 13, whose sports are skiing and figure skating.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve always talked sports at home,&rdquo; revealed Larry, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;ve always been encouraged by the folks to take part in them. Whenever they have the chance they&rsquo;re out watching us and rooting for us.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02246/1682480-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="526" height="695"><figcaption class="caption-body">Larry Hillman</figcaption></div><h2>Parents Saw First NHL Goal</h2>One of the big thrills for Hillman&rsquo;s parents occurred a year ago in Toronto, when he was playing for the Detroit Red Wings. Lary scored his first major league goal in Maple Leaf Gardens when he hoisted one of his blazing slap shots by Easy Ed Chadwick with his mother and father watching.The three Hillman brothers have pursued different paths into hockey. Bud has been in the Bruins&rsquo; organization all the way as a protege of Harold Cotton, the Bruins&rsquo; chief scout. Larra started in the Detroit chain, then worked briefly for the Chicago Black Hawks before being purchased by the Bruins last fall. Wayne is an embryonic Black Hawk and the biggest of the three.Bud, Larry and Wayne have never played together steadily in hockey but they&rsquo;ve been able to make a real family affair of baseball. That is. it used to be baseball but now it&rsquo;s softball.&ldquo;We make up almost half a softball team in the town league in Kirkland Lake,&rdquo; explained Larry. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the Joe Dash team &mdash; we&rsquo;re sponsored by a men&rsquo;s wear store &mdash; and all four of us play &mdash; Bud, Wayne, Dad and me.&ldquo;Dad plays third base and does the coaching and Wayne is the shortstop. I pitch and Bud catches me. It helps make for a great summer.&rdquo;Dick Duff of the Toronto Maple Leafs plays second base on the same team and the opposition includes Willie Marshall of Hershey.<h2>Untouchable In Trade</h2>Hillman was playing junior hockey in Hamilton when he was called up by Detroit three years ago. The Red Wings used him in six games, or enough to make him a pro, and a year later when he could have been playing more junior he divided his time between Buffalo and Detroit. Last season he played with both Edmonton and Detroit and Chicago acquired him in the post-season draft.The Black Hawks planned to start him at Buffalo this fall but the Bruins claimed him, even though they already had six veteran defensemen. So well has the 183-pounder responded to steady play that when he offered anothei-team a trade in mid-season Manager Lyn Patrick said, &ldquo;You can pick any of my defensemen except Hillman.&rdquo;Unmarried, Larry spent last summer hefting cases in shipping and delivery for a Kirkland Lake brewery, a switch from previous summers when he worked in a lumber yard which services a gold mine with&rsquo; Bud. The softball comes after work.<h2>Hub Rearguard Tries To Pitch One</h2><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-01299/1682473-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="2208" height="1967"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lorry Hillman at 21, has already seen service with Detroit, Chicago and now Boston. But Manager Lynn Patrick says that&rsquo;s where he&rsquo;ll stay. He put Larry on the untouchable list in recent trade talks. Above, the Blond Rearguard tries to match punches with Toronto&rsquo;s Tim Horton as linesman George Hayes holds them apart. (Photo by Turofsky)</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Larry Brought Up To Be Ball Player As Kid

BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;When the father of the three hockey-playing Hillmans taught his sons to bat he tipped his hand on his affection for the Detroit Tigers and his knowledge of Detroit&rsquo;s Briggs Stadium.A right-handed batter himself, Mr. Hillman taught his sons Bud, Larry and Wayne to bat left-handed.&ldquo;A left-handed hitter has an advantage over a right-hander in the layouts in most parks,&rdquo; he told them.Briggs Stadium where the senior Hillman used to root for the Tigers, has a short right field ideal for left-handed batters like his sons and a long left field less suited for right-handed betters like him. &#9632;

Dad Taught Boys To Bat Left For Short Right Field Walls

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;How did Larry Hillman feel last fall when he was told he&rsquo;d been bought by the Boston Bruins?Like the seventh defenseman on a hockey team, he says.&ldquo;Gosh, I was astonished,&rdquo; he admitted yesterday. &ldquo;I counted up the Bruins&rsquo; defensemen &mdash; Ferny&rdquo; Flaman, Bob Armstrong, Jack Bionda, Leo Boivin, Allan Stanley, Doug Mohns&mdash;and wondered what the heck they&rsquo;d do with me.&ldquo;The only thing I could figure was that they&rsquo;d bought me for Springfield, to play with my brother Bud. But I kept remembering what Bud had said about how the Bruins always give everyone a chance,, so I decided to wait and see.&ldquo;When I caught up with the team Lynn Patrick and Milt Schmidt told me I was going to play with them. If I hadn&rsquo;t had a little bit of a warning from my brother I would have been really astonished then.&rdquo;Since the start of the season the Bruins have optioned Arm strong and Bionda to Springfield and Boivin has been out for the past several weeks with an appendectomy. Hillman has played in every game. &#9632;

Felt Like 7th Defenseman, He Says, Of Purchase By Bs

<div class="byline">By ROGER BARRY</div>BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;Europe&rsquo;s leading hockey players are being watched through professional eyes as they participate in the world amateur championships in Oslo, NorwayIn Oslo te watch the tournament are President Walter Brown and Manager Lynn Patrick of the Boston Bruins.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-07121/1682597-1-eng-US/f0004-072.jpg" title="f0004-07" width="280" height="425"><figcaption class="caption-body">Walter Brown</figcaption></div>Brown and Patrick flew to Norway earlier this week for the expressed purpose of scouting the European teams. Any players whom they consider National League prospects they will talk to on the spot.The Bruins&rsquo; officials departed with the intention of watching one player in particular. He is Lars Bjorn, a stocky defenseman who is playing with the team representing Sweden.Bjorn was recommended to the Bruins by Sven &ldquo;Tumba&rdquo; Johansson, the center from Sweden who trained with the Bruins here last fall. Johansson played three games with the Bruins&rsquo; Quebec Aces farm team in the Quebec League but decided against becoming a professional.Brown, probably the best-known hockey official in the world, has been making hockey trips to Europe for more than 25 years. The enthusiasm of the Bruins&rsquo; president and Johansson&rsquo;s reports of the growth of European hockey had a deciding influence on Patrick.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll be in territory that no one has touched before and perhaps we will find some players, said Patrick. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why we re going and we&rsquo;re completely in earnest.<h2>Writer Tipped Him Off</h2>&ldquo;Johansson is a darned good hockey player for a fellow of his limited experience but he first whetted my interest in looking at the European players when he told me there were a number 6f others better than he.&ldquo;If we can come up with one good prospect for the Bruins or set up the means of keeping tabs on European talent we&rsquo;ll be making great progress. At the very least we&rsquo;ll learn what&rsquo;s going on in European hockey.&rdquo;Patrick first turned his thoughts toward Europe as a potential source of talent after the 1956 Olympic Games in Italy, won by the Russians. Bob Hesketh, a Toronto sportswriter who covered the competition, told him of Johanssan. Big Tumba was subsequently invited to train with the Bruins when he received further recommendations including one from Don Riggazio, goal-tender for the United States team now in Oslo.The Bruins have already qualified as major league hockey&rsquo;s leading pioneers in the neverending search for talent.They are the only team ever to import a European for a tryout, as they did with Johansson last fall.They are the first team ever to have Negro players on their pre-season training roster, as they did last tall in Willie O&rsquo;Ree and Stan Maxwell.Then a few weeks ago they became the first major league team ever to play a Negro in the National league when O&rsquo;Ree played with them in two games against the Montreal Canadians.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-03225/1682590-1-eng-US/f0012-032.jpg" title="f0012-03" width="577" height="209"></div><h2>THE POINT PARADE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-04166/1682583-1-eng-US/f0012-042.jpg" title="f0012-04" width="577" height="286"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2>Points&mdash;W. Hynes, Cin. 70Goals&mdash;P. Brillant, Ind. 39B. Sutherland, Cin.Assists&mdash;M. Boileau, Ind. 58Winning Goals&mdash;J. Smith, Cin. L. Thornson, FtW, C. Melski, Cin. P. Brillant, Ind.Hat Tricks&mdash;G. Sharp, Lou. 3 P. Brillant, Ind. JL Sutherland, Oin.Shut Outs&mdash;A. Binnette, Tol 8Leading Goalkeeper&rsquo;s AverageG. Ramsey, Cin. 26LWinning Team Scored First 101Losing Team Scored First 46Overtime Games Played 32Overtime Games Decided 18 &#9632;

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Patrick, Brown To Look Over European Crop

BOSTON. Mass.&mdash;The name Sven &lsquo;Tumba&rsquo; Johansson in Sweden holds the&rsquo; same magic that the name Maurice Richard has in Quebec and other parts of Canada.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s the Richard of Sweden&rdquo; says Lynn Patrick. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a real hero over there. His job is something like that of an athlete director. He ns everything athletictly in that country.&rdquo;Johansson was brought to this side oy the Bruins and attended their training camp.&ldquo;He wanted to sta over here and play,&rdquo; Patrick said, &ldquo;but he didn&rsquo;t want to sign a pro contract. He wanted to play for the Quebec Aces of the Quebec Hockey League for nothing. In Swe den an amateur can play in professional ranks and still remain an amateur as long as he doesn&rsquo;t Accept money or sign a pro contact. Tumba thought he could do that here.&ldquo;As a matter of fact I paid a 368 phone bill for him when he wanted to call the Swedish Ice Hockey Fedsration to find out it it could be done. Naturally, they are affilfltted with the CAHA and they said no. He still didn&rsquo;t believe them and, was very sorry to go home&rdquo; &#9632;

Johansson Name Holds Same Magic As Richard In Sweden

<div class="byline">By MILT DUNNELL</div>Toronto Star<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-08104/1682666-1-eng-US/f0004-082.jpg" title="f0004-08" width="312" height="351"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-09100/1682659-1-eng-US/f0004-092.jpg" title="f0004-09" width="285" height="340"></div><h2>Chicago Would Win This Trophy</h2>&ldquo;Maybe there&rsquo;s a trophy for yelling jn this league,&rdquo; Mr. R. (for Ready-with-a-quip-or-whip) Pilous said hopefully. &ldquo;If there is, our fans will win it. Even the Montreal customers can&rsquo;t eut-holler our folks. The other night some person threw a fishing line out on the ice. That was a new one on me. Then, a light bulb exploded. I thought I&rsquo;d been shot. There&rsquo;s never a dull moment in our rink. The night we scored five goals in the first period, I figured they were gonna tear the place apart.&rdquo;Rudy&rsquo;s Black Hawks already were warming up on the Gardens&rsquo; ice. The coach can&rsquo;t go out and skate around, with the players. If he could he would be less noted for ulcers and more famous for longevity. As it is, the coach spends the last few minutes before game time pacing the dressing room, exercising his lungs and his legs. He doesn&rsquo;t have to be talking about hockey. But usually he does want to talk about something. Talk! relieves tension.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0004-1085/1682652-1-eng-US/f0004-102.jpg" title="f0004-10" width="530" height="799"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rudy Pilous</figcaption></div>&ldquo;You asked me whether I&rsquo;ve learned much in the short time I&rsquo;ve been in this league,&rdquo; Rudy remembered. &ldquo;Seems like there are new things coming up every day. Like the other night, when we played in Montreal, the plan was for us to come by train to Toronto. We were to transfer to a plane here and fly home in time for our game Sunday night.&ldquo;When we got to Toronto. Tommy (Ivan) met us and said the planes had been grounded. Tommy said we&rsquo;d have to take a &lsquo;special&rsquo; if we wanted to be in Chicago on time. I had no idea what that meant&mdash;until the railway company gave us an engine, an empty baggage car for a buffer, a diner and a Pullman. Now, we take off for Chicago like a bat outta hades. Made it 45 minutes before game time. Bet that will cost us a few bucks.&rdquo;<h2>Rudy Felt This Win Coming Up</h2>Having been a player himself&mdash;although he never did make the big time&mdash;Pilous expects athletes to commit mistakes. But there are various degrees of mistakes&mdash;just as there are several degrees of theft it seems. The most serious, in his code, is what Rudy calls &ldquo;the unpardonable sin&rdquo; type of error. These are blunders which, he claims, a juvenile team shouldn&rsquo;t make. When they happen on a big league club, he doesn&rsquo;t rant and rave&mdash;he calls in the guilty parties and asks them how they account for boners that would put city leaguers to shame.&ldquo;I chewed out some of our guys after we lost, 11-3, in Montreal and 4-1 at Detroit,&rdquo; Rudy recalled. &ldquo;The next time out, we licked Canadiens, 7-1. So I guess our little talks did some good.&rdquo;That shellacking in Montreal was particularly humiliating to Pilous. His boss, Jim Norris, had flown up from Florida. Jim probably wanted to see what kind of magic Rudy was using to get two wins in two tries after taking over the Hawks. The only miracle Rudy performed that night was to escape with his life.&ldquo;After the slaughter was over,&rdquo; Rudy shuddered, I tried to apologize to Mr. Norris. He was tryin&rsquo; to consol# me. I don&rsquo;t know which one of us felt the worst.&rdquo;Now the band was playing &ldquo;The Queen&rdquo; outside in the darkened Gardens&mdash;time for a coach to earn his daily bread. Rudy left for the pit almost cheerfully. He had a hunch, he said, his Hawks would take this one. At the end of the first period, he still thought so. Which proves the man is psychic. No person with just ordinary powers of perception possibly could have deduced the final outcome from the happenings of the first 20 minutes.After that well, it&rsquo;s a good thing the people is Toronto don&rsquo;t throw out fishing lines. Mr. William Reay of our side would have used one&mdash;to hang himself. &#9632;

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Speaking On Sport

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;Maurice Richard tangled with defenseman Larry Hillman is his comeback game. As the sticks went up it looked as though there would be a battle. Suddenly Hillman dropped his stick and gloves and just as he got the gloves off Richard skated away. Standing there without a stick and gloves was Hillman. The crowd roared.Said Richard: &ldquo;At my age you stay out of fights.&rdquo; &#9632;

“At My Age You Stay Out Of Fights,” Says Maurice

<div class="byline">By LEN BRAMSON</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0005-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-01320/1682711-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">This One Had Touch Of QreatnessLumley stretched for the first goal but it would have token more than a human effort to stop the shot. Rocket right, has just scored while Hillman (22) looks on. Moore is behind net.</figcaption></div>MONTREAT., Que.&mdash;If the Stratford Festival Company, a drama group with a flare for holding an audience could have booked themselves into Montreal about, ten days earlier than their March 3rd date, they would have watched a guy who is probably the greatest dramatist of all time &mdash; and he does his bit on skates to boot. And they would have learned about such things as timing and grace. However, had they booked themselves in that early they wouldn&rsquo;t have had much of an audience. Everyone in Montreal was either at the Forum watching Maurice Richard, in a drama that starred Maurice Richard, was written and directed by Maurice Richard and staged by Maurice Richard, or were sitting beside a radio listening about Maurice Richard.Maurcie Richard is an unobtrusive man &hellip; in everything but his business. And his business is hockey. Last week he came back to the wars, wearing the same costume with the same number nine and with the same flare for making everyone take notice. He had been sidelined since last November 13th with a sliced Achilles Tendon that would put most 36 year old men on the disabled list for life. But you have to cut Richard pretty deep to get him out of the way, and the blade of a skate apparently, isn&rsquo;t effective enough for the job.Rumors that the Rocket would return to action had been circulating around this city for weeks. And in this city when rumors about the Rocket start making the rounds sputniks, guided missiles, floods and severe snow storms take second billing.Housewives, tor three months had a picnic discussing his severed ankle. Messenger boys, telephone operators and executives all had their ideas just when he would be back. First it was February 9th against the Rangers, then February 12th against the Leafs in Toronto. Finally, in Toronto General Manager Frank Seike told newsmen that Richard had indicated to him, that he would give the leg a try against the Boston Bruins on Thursday. February 20th. There was a full week before the game, but scalpers, who were lucky enough to get hold of a couple, doubled their prices. Hours before the game thei-e was a lineup that stretched for blocks. It was like playoff time in February.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-02290/1682704-1-eng-US/f0005-022.jpg" title="f0005-02" width="1688" height="917"><figcaption class="caption-body">This One Had Touch Of LuckHis second goal rolled in off his skate</figcaption></div><h2>Player Relieve Tension</h2>Before the game Coach Toe Blake said he would use the Rocket on the power play &ldquo;and perhaps the infrequent regular turn or two. We don&rsquo;t want to rush him too quickly.&rdquo;The Rocket turned up and was presented with a bouquet of flowers by his tea inmates before the game. It was more of a joke to relieve the pressure on him than anything else.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-03225/1682697-1-eng-US/f0005-032.jpg" title="f0005-03" width="1110" height="1102"><figcaption class="caption-body">When It Was OverGeoffrion congratulates Rocket after his comeback game. Geoffrion is out for the season</figcaption></div>As he Warmed up before the game his teammates joked with him.&ldquo;How do you like our new rookie?&rdquo; laughted Tom Johnson.When the game started Richard stayed on the ice with linemates Moore and brother Henri. The crowd roared and then Blake called him off. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t put him into the starting lineup and when he jumped over the boards just as the game started I had to call him back,&rdquo; said Toe after the game.The Rocket laughed: &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t tell me he, didn&rsquo;t want we to start.&rdquo;Richard scored two goals. One had the touch of greatness and the other was tinged with luck. His first came at 19.31 of the first period. Henri Richard was fighting for the puck in the corner. Suddenly he flicked it to Moore behind the cage. He watched Rocket skate in from the right side and then moved a few feet to his left and sent the puck scooting to the great Right Winger&rsquo;s stick. As the puck hit the stick it took off and a split second later the netting on the top right hand corner of the cage bulged. Lumley made a desperate effort to stop it but it would have taken more than a human to do that.Said Lumley: &ldquo;His second was lucky, but the first was a real masterpiece.&rdquo;<h2>Wasn&rsquo;t Nervous At All</h2>Boston Coach Milt Schmidt agreed with his goaler.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s nothing you can do about a guy like him. His first goal had his trademake on it all the way. He might have been lucky on the second, but don&rsquo;t forget luck smiles on stars like him.&rdquo;The lucky second goal came in the second period, off a play started by Moore and Henri and finished by Rocket. Moore pushed it up to Henri inside his own blueline. The younger Richard straddled (he Boston blueline and then cut over on the left side. As he tried to cut around defenceman Alan Stanley, he found himself being steered into the corner. Seeing Rocket free in front of the net he passed out. Lumley made the original stop and as Maurice cut in front, the disc hit his skate and rolled over the line.They were goals number 12 and 13 for him in 15 games and number 505 and 506 in his NHL career.<h2>Like Starting a Hew Year, Says Socket&hellip;</h2>When it was over Richard talked to newspapermen in the room.Was he nervous?&ldquo;No. It was just like the first game of the season. I wasn&rsquo;t nervous or pressing. Maybe I would have been a few years ago. I guess I&rsquo;m mellowing.&rdquo;Was the foot sore?&ldquo;It was a little. There is still some stiffness and soreness in the foot. It will be like that now until the season ends. I have to force it to get rid of the soreness.&rdquo;Maurice said he felt better after he got warmed up. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t pull too much then; after it gets stretched it seems better.&ldquo;I had no idea how it would be. in a regular game. After I had a few turns didn&rsquo;t feel anything except when I wanted to breakfast. Then it hurt.&rdquo;Richard said he would like to set 20 goals as his target for the year. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to get 20 for the year. If I&rsquo;m as lucky as I was my first night I guess I should, maybe more.&rdquo;Rocket&rsquo;s comeback game had everybody talking. Many felt that he would never be the same Rocket who had battled his way to hockey&rsquo;s greatest heights. At 36, they said a man just doesn&rsquo;t heal as well as at 26. At times Richard had doubts himself. When everybody thought he was ready, he said he was not. He practiced night, and day. He refereed kids games in open air rinks and at the Forum. The fear that he might not be able to continue the pace he was setting when he was injured must have kept him awake a few nights.Few of his 506 goals have given Maurice greater pleasure than the one he scored in the firrt period of the Boston game.He literally danced his way back to the Canadiens&rsquo; bench, his hands and stick high above his head as his teammates gathered around. Linesman Bill Morrison then presented him with the puck. He said he will give it to his 3&frac12; year old son Andre.His 506th will go to an orphanage in Sherbrooke, Quebec. His 507 has already been designated to a lad who lives near him and. an Maurice says, &ldquo;he has the likeable name for Maurice Richard Stuart.&rdquo;Many of Rocket&rsquo;s teammates were willing to bet he would score at least, one goal in his first game. Doug Harvey admitted he bet a dollar &ldquo;he&rsquo;d score at least one. 1 collected.&rdquo;Most of his teammates showed complete surprise at his lightening speed.&ldquo;Once 1 gave him a pass and I&rsquo;m still wondering how Lumley stopped it,&rdquo; said Beliveau.Even brother Henri was surprised: &ldquo;He played as if he missed only two games. What amazed me was the accuracy of his shots, I saw him in the hospital-not too long ago; I saw him walking with dif ficulty even with His crutches. Sure I&rsquo;m surprised.&rdquo;But Coach Toe Blake said he wasn&rsquo;t surprised at what he had done. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m never surprised it anything the Rocket does. There&rsquo;s a man who will never need a script writer. Why everything he does out there is drama.&rdquo;General Manager Frank Seike was deeply touched by the great comeback. &ldquo;You and I have seen some great hockey players. But never one like this.&rdquo;Boom Boom Geoffrion, out with a ruptured bowel for the remainder of the season, walked over to congratulate Richard. &ldquo;I saw a remarkable exhibition I won&rsquo;t forget. This guy will be scoring goals when he&rsquo;s 50,&rdquo; he said.And as Maurice walked out the door he smiled and quipped. &ldquo;I should have had four more. &#9632;

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Players Toe Blake Relieved Not Very Pressure Surprised

<div class="byline">by Dink Carroll</div>(Montreal Gazette)<h2>A History-Making Trip</h2>Lynn Partick, the Boston Bruins&rsquo; general manager, is going to make history of a sort when he goes to Europe next week on a scouting trip. No representative of a National Hockey League club has ever gone to Europe in search of talent up till now.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s getting more difficult to find good prospects in Canada from year to year,&rdquo; Lynn explained here recently. &ldquo;Hockey is improving over there all the time and maybe I can find somebody who can play in the National League. I&rsquo;m going to take a look, anyway.&rdquo;This all stems from the visit here last fall of Sven (Tumba) Johanssen, a member of the Swedish national team. Tumba, a forward, attended the Bruins&rsquo; training camp and then played five games with the Quebec Aces, a farm club of the Bruins.&ldquo;Tumba was a good skater and stickhandler, and he made nice passes,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;But he learned to play hockey under European Rules and he wasn&rsquo;t used to bodychecking. At first, he was getting knocked off his feet all the time, but he improved quickly once he became accustomed to our rules.&rdquo;Lynn was asked if he thought the 25-years-old Tumba could have made the grade in the NHL.&ldquo;We wanted him,&rdquo; he replied. &ldquo;If he had signed with us, he&rsquo;d probably be playing for us right now though we might have left him in Quebec for a while. But he was a graduate of a college over there in physical education. What he wanted to do was play over here for a year and then go back and teach some of the things he&rsquo;d learned.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-01390/1682766-1-eng-US/f0006-012.jpg" title="f0006-01" width="517" height="802"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lynn Patrick</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The way I understand it, their amateur rules are different from ours. An amateur can play soccer with the pros without losing his amateur status. That&rsquo;s the way it used to be here when my dad (Lester Patrick) was playing for the old Wanderers. But if Tumba had played with the pros over here for a year, even though he didn&rsquo;t draw a salary, he would he professionalized in Europe.<h2>One Already On List</h2>&ldquo;We tried to work out something for Tumba. but we couldn&rsquo;t get around it because the CAHA has some kind of an agreement with the Ice Hockey Federation over there.&rdquo;It seems that Tumba has recommended a Swedish player to Lynn named Lars Bjorn, a 23-year-old defenseman. What made Lynn think that Bjorn could adapt himself to our rules?&ldquo;Well, he&rsquo;s a defenseman,&rdquo; he pointed out. &ldquo;They allow body-checking in the defensive zone under European Rules and he may not be as handicapped as Tumba was. We&rsquo;ve already put him on negotiation list.&rdquo;Lynn repeated what Harold Cotton, the Bruin&rsquo;s chief scout, had told him more than once about the scarcity of good prospects in Canada, especially in the west.&ldquo;Harold has a theory that the country is too prosperous to produce good hockey players right now,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In the depression days, fathers were eager to have their boys become professional hockey players. The family could use the money.&ldquo;Today the fathers have the money and they are ambitious to have their sons go to college and become doctors and lawyers and engineers. The kids all play hockey until they are 14 or 15 and then, just when they should start to concentrate on hockey as a career, they give it up.&rdquo;<h2>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s All Relative&rdquo;</h2>If hockey clubs are going to go as far afield as Europe in search of prospects, won&rsquo;t the expenses mount?&ldquo;It&rsquo;s all relative,&rdquo; Lynn said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve spent $25,000 in the last six or seven years on a junior club in Western Canada and it hasn&rsquo;t produced one major league player. There have been several who played in the minors, but none who could make our club.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going over there just to watch Bjorn and the Swedish team; I&rsquo;m going to watch the entire tournament at Oslo. I&rsquo;m not particularly interested in the teams representing countries behind the Iron Curtain because their players can&rsquo;t come over here, but I&rsquo;m interested in all the others.&ldquo;When the tournament is over I&rsquo;m going to Sweden with Tumba Johanssen. Tumba operates a league over there corresponding to our junior leagues. If there are any good prospects in that league I want to look them over. If I can find only one player who has the ability to play in the NHL, the trip will have paid off.&ldquo;There never has been a player in the NHL who learned his hockey in Europe, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that, there won&rsquo;t be. There may be one next year, or two years from now, or even 10 years from now.&ldquo;If we can get one, we&rsquo;ll get our money back in a hurry at the box office. There was terrific interest in Tumba Johanssen&mdash;international, at that&mdash;when he was at our training camp. Some people thought it was just a publicity stunt on our part, but it wasn&rsquo;t. We&rsquo;d like to have him.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Playing the field

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;How often have you thought to yourself &ldquo;those experts don&rsquo;t know a thing about picking All Star teams? I wish had a chance?&rdquo;Well, THE HOCKEY NEWS is giving you that chance. Not only are they giving you a chance to pick your all-Stars but also the top rookie-of-the-year and most-valuable-player. You get all of these chances in the next four issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS.Below is the Conn in which you can jot down the players you would like to see on your 1957-58 All-Star team.The rules, which appear elsewhere on this page, are simple to follow. The most important thing is to get your ballot in so your favorite players are not left off. The faster you get them in the sooner we can tabulate them, too.It doesn&rsquo;t matter who you vote for &mdash; but vote!Remember, if one of your favorites should fail to gain a berth on the Fans&rsquo; All-Star team by the margin of just a few points, it could be because you didn&rsquo;t send that ballot in as you had intended. So right now, while it&rsquo;s still fresh in your mind, fill out the ballot on this page and mail it right away to All-Star Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<h2>Six---Tops In Their Positions</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-02274/1682839-1-eng-US/f0006-022.jpg" title="f0006-02" width="569" height="556"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jacques Plante</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-03185/1682832-1-eng-US/f0006-032.jpg" title="f0006-03" width="577" height="577"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Gadsby</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-04131/1682825-1-eng-US/f0006-042.jpg" title="f0006-04" width="589" height="562"><figcaption class="caption-body">Jean Beliveau</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-05115/1682818-1-eng-US/f0006-052.jpg" title="f0006-05" width="574" height="565"><figcaption class="caption-body">Fleming Mackell</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0698/1682811-1-eng-US/f0006-062.jpg" title="f0006-06" width="566" height="573"><figcaption class="caption-body">Andy Bathgate</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0744/1682804-1-eng-US/f0006-072.jpg" title="f0006-07" width="582" height="563"><figcaption class="caption-body">Milt Schmidt</figcaption></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0006-0816/1682797-1-eng-US/f0006-082.jpg" title="f0006-08" width="1760" height="1652"></div> &#9632;

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Fans! You Be Experts, Pick Your All-Stars

1&mdash;Anyone is eligible to cast ballots for the National Hockey League AllStar Team, but each reader may submit ONLY ONE ENTRY, naming a first and second team, as well as roach, MVP and Outstanding Rookie.2&mdash;The ballots will run for four weeks. Final ballot will appear in the issue dated March 15, 1958.3&mdash;Use blanks published in The Hockey News, or reasonable facsimile or tracings of some if you do not wish to deface your copy. Be sure to fill in your own name and address.4&mdash;Ballots must be mailed to &mdash; AllStar Editor, THE HOCKEY NEWS, Room 309, 1434 St. Catherine St. W., Montreal, Que.5&mdash;All ballots must be postmarked NOT LATER THAN MIDNIGHT. MONDAY, MARCH 24. 1958. &#9632;

VOTING RULES

BOSTON, Mass.&mdash;The largest television audience ever to see a hockey game watched that played here on February 15 between the Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens.The game was televised by the Columbia Broadcasting System over 174 stations in the United States according to Bill MacPhail. CBS sports director. The stations covered all 48 states and the District of Columbia.In addition it was carried into Canada for the first time over the Canadian Broadcasting Company network which included both French and English channels.The Saturday afternoon telecasts of games in the four United States cities in the National league were started a year ago with a network of 59 stations. After three games the network had grown to 115 stations, and the number increased steadily to the completion of the 10-game scheduleThis season CBS is televising 21 games, and the first telecast in November was carried by 125 stations.Watching the Bruins-Montreal record-maker, a lively 2-2 tie, were people in such unlikely hockey spots as Anderson, S. Car. Cheyenne, Wyo., Lafayette, Ind., and Sweetwater, Texas.A feature of the Boston Garden program was the deft interviewing by Fred Cusick of Montreal players like Doug Harvey. Jean Belhveau, Henri Richard, Marcel Bonin and Dick Moore. The Canadiens and Bruins were televised from here earlier in the season and CBS received many requests from viewers for closeups of the Stanley cup champions.All National league teams but rhe Toronto Maple Leafs will appear at least twice on the international network this season. &#9632;

Largest Crowd In History Watches Habs, Bruins Play

<div class="byline">By BUD BOOTH</div>CHICAGO, III.&mdash;Glenn Hall now ranks second only to the immortal Charlie Gardiner in Black Hawk history in shutouts racked-up in a single season. Gardiner, one of hockey&rsquo;s all-time greats, holds the club record of 12 which dates all the way back to the 1930-31 campaign.Since then no Chicago net-minder has ever even got close, but Hall moved into a runner-up role February 16 when he stood out in an important 4-0 blanking of the champion Canadiens at the Stadium here. It was Glenn&rsquo;s 7th shutout of the year with 16 Black Hawk games still remaining to be played.&ldquo;He was great again,&rdquo; credited Coach Rudy Pilous, &ldquo;and he kept us in the game when they put on the pressure in the second period.&rdquo; Hall came up with several amazing stops which had everyone blinking in disbelief and official scorers credited him with 12 saves in the first half of the period alone.The 7th shutout moved Glenn one up on Al Rollins who posted 6 in 195 2-53, his first year as a Chicagoan after moving over from Toronto. Chicago goalies over the past 15 years have been far less effective in averaging well under a mere 3 blankings per season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-02309/1682949-1-eng-US/f0007-022.jpg" title="f0007-02" width="514" height="826"><figcaption class="caption-body">Up To SevenGlenn Hall</figcaption></div>In his last 3 years with the Hawks Rollins was hard pressed to acquire 6 shutouts over the full period. A span covering 4 seasons from 1945 to 49 found Mike Karakas. Paul Biheault Emil Francis and Jim Henry able to acquire only 3 shutouts during what came to 230 games.<h2>Hawks Outscore Habs 14-11 On Home Ice</h2>The solid triumph over Montreal gave the Hawks a 14-11 scoring edge over the Frenchmen on home ice this year and marked the third win in the last four tries for the Pilous pucksters. Chicago garnered only 3 victories all of last year among the 14 meetings between the clubs.Montreal backers pointed out that the club was without the services of Doug Harvey in the 4-0 loss in attempting to explain the defeat. &ldquo;Huh,&rdquo; exclaimed veteran Jim Thomson of the Hawks, &ldquo;the last time he didn&rsquo;t play they stoned us 11-3&rdquo;. &#9632;

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Hall Gets Closer To Chicagos’ Hall Of Fame In Zeros

<div class="byline">By STAN FISCHLER</div>NEW YORK, N.Y.&rdquo;Does Andy Bathgate &ldquo;loaf&rdquo; for half a season and then start playing hockey?Why does he play better on the road than at Madison Square Garden?Is the burden of &ldquo;carrying&rdquo; the Rangers affecting his play? These and other questions were asked of Bathgate, the closest thing New York has had to a super-star in years, Once again he has come on in the second half of the season and leads the Blues in scoring.Andy Bathgate, a gentleman, perennial Ranger high scorer and sensitive about his performances answered them without flinching.&ldquo;First of all, Andy, how come you have most of your big games on foreign rinks?&rdquo;&ldquo;That&rsquo;s hard to say, I&rsquo;ve got the crowd behind, me in New York so that should help but there are things about the Garden rink that might affect me.&ldquo;Take the rink, for instance. We have a small ice surface here so (here&rsquo;s not much room to skate. I&rsquo;m the kind of player that likes plenty of room. When we&rsquo;re home I&rsquo;m crowded and maybe that&rsquo;s why I look better in Chicago and the other places.&rdquo;&ldquo;Do yon &lsquo;loaf&rsquo; or pace yourself. for the first part of the season and start playing harder in the second half?&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0007-03237/1682980-1-eng-US/f0007-032.jpg" title="f0007-03" width="492" height="806"><figcaption class="caption-body">On The MarchAndy Bathgate</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Believe it or not. I actually try harder at the beginning of the season. 1 figure if I play hard at (he start, it&rsquo;ll help the team get off its feet.&ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t think I loaf or pace myself although I notice that I&rsquo;m playing better, now and should have a good finish.&rdquo;&ldquo;Your coach says you&rsquo;re one of the keys to the team&rsquo;s playoff hopes. How do you feel about that?&rdquo;&ldquo;Well, I know I should carry some of the load.&rdquo;&ldquo;Does that brother you?&rdquo;Phil plays me a lot so he must have some faith in me. I get the feeling that I have a real job to do. You know, playing the point, sometimes killing penalties and taking a regular turn. There&rsquo;s a certain responsibility.&rdquo;&ldquo;Some observes believe you could play even better than you are playing now. They say you should be continually great. What about it?&rdquo;&ldquo;I know that I can&rsquo;t get myself up for 70 games. Now take Beliveau, for example. He can have a bad game with Montreal and you&rsquo;ll never notice it because there are so many others on that club who can take over.&ldquo;But when I have a bad game everybody notices it because we don&rsquo;t have the club Montreal has. We&rsquo;re just ordinary guys, so if I&rsquo;m bad there aren&rsquo;t going to be many covering up for me.&rdquo;Bathgate recently was shifted to right wing on a line with Dave Creighton and Camille Henry. After a mediocre start they&rsquo;ve begun to roll.&ldquo;Dave likes to hold the puck&rdquo;, said Andy. &ldquo;It took a while to get used to it. Now he&rsquo;s making some pretty plays for me. And Camille, well, he&rsquo;s just terrific on those pattern plays.&rdquo;For those interested in Andy&rsquo;s physique, he&rsquo;s weighing 175 pounds these days and &lsquo;feels very good.&rdquo; thank you.RANGERABILIA For the first time this season a dead flounder was tossed on Garden ice after an unpopular call by referee Red Storey &hellip; Ranger banner fanatics have added an &ldquo;Arthur Reichert flag to the balcony collection. He&rsquo;s the goal judge at the Ninth ave. end &hellip; Trainer Frank Paice &mdash; who some claim was vaccinated with a phonograph needle he can talk so fast &mdash; collected 81.83 in coins at Chicago during an anti-referee demonstration there &hellip; Don&rsquo;t be surprised it Ranger home and away games are broadcast next season &hellip; Another tribute to hockey. In spite of a blizzard that choked New York, more than 12,000 fans turned out for the Feb. 16th game with Boston &hellip; We hate corn but Watson is right about Red Sullivan&rsquo;s spirit being an asset to the Blues. High school cheer leaders could take a lesson from Redvers &hellip; Bathgate&rsquo;s father-in-law sent him two trout all the way from Vancouver. Andy cut &rsquo;em up and passed &lsquo;em out to the team. &#9632;

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Andy Starts To Go; Blues Start To Go

<h2>LoBine Has 90 Goals</h2>Leo LoBine of the Boston Bruins is not too far away from goal number one hundred in National Hockey League play. On Monday, February 24th, Leo had scored 90 NHL goals, in about six seasons of play.<h2>Lewicki Has 96 Goals</h2>Danny Lewicki, the deft little star of the New York Rangers is only four goals shy of 100 in National Hockey League play. Including 10 this season Lewicki has scored 96.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-01375/1683032-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="588" height="239"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19</h2>Chicago 2 at Xew York 3Chicago &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Mortson, Thomson, Pilote. Vasko, Cuelienan; forwards: Hull, Litzenberger, Ferguson, Skov, Murphy, Nesterenko. Reibel, Dineen, Dean Kachur.New York &mdash; Goal: Worsley: defense: Howell, Fontinato, Evans. Gadsly. Cahsn; forwards: Creighton, Bathgate. Henry, Sullivan. Hebenlon Lewicki. Popein. Gendron. MacDonald Foley, Cicala.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New York: MacDonald (Howell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.41Penalty: Pilote 11.17.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;New York: Hebentnn (Bathgate) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.45Pcnaities: Thompson 14.21 Fontinato 16.24.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;New York: Gadsby (Sullivan. Bebenton) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 0.424&mdash;Chicago: Morison (Kachur. Dea) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.125&mdash;Chicago: Litzenberger (Pilote) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.31Penalties: Lewicki 4.59. Vasko 6.09.<h2>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20</h2>Baston 0 at Montreal 4Boston &mdash; Goal Lumley; defense Stanley. Mohns. Flaman. Hillman: forwards: Horvath, Staaiuk, Bueyk, MacKeil, Regan, Labinr, McKenney, Toppizzini, Peirson, Boone, Beckett.Montreal &mdash; Goal; Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent. Johnson. Turner, Bownass: forwards: H. Richard Moore, Bonin, Beliveau. Guriy. M. Richard. Provost. Pronovost, Goyeiie. Marshal).<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Montreal: Provost (St. Laurent, Pronovost) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.122&mdash;Montreal M. Richard (H. Richard. Moore) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.22Penalties: Flaman 1.20. Moore. 3.28<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Montreal: M. Richard (H Richard. Moorel) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5.32Penalties: Mackell 12.25 M. Richard 14.20<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Montreal: Beliveau (Provost. Hownassi) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.05Penalties: Beliveau 8.43. M. Richard 14.01.<h2>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22</h2>New York 2 at Montreal 2New York &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defense; Gadsby. Evans. Fontinato. Howell; forwards; Sullivan, Hebenton. MacDonald, Popein. Bathgate. Gendron. Greighton, Koley. Henry. Lewicki.Canadiens &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Harvey, St. Laurent. Johnson, Turner; Bowiiaas, forwards: H. Rrchard. M. Richard. Moore. Beliveau. Curry. Boston, Goyette, Provost, Pronovost, Marshall.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New York: Henry (Bathgate. Creighton) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.34Penalties: Provost 4.07. Howell 8.25. Pronovost 18.28.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Canadiens; Harvey (Marshall, Pronovost) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.583&mdash;New York: Creighton Bathgate. Gadsby) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.154&mdash;Canadiens: H. Richard (M. Richard, Moore) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.00Penalties: Creighton 11.03. Bathgate 19.48.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: none.Penalties: Pronovost major 9.44. Harvey 10.42. MacDonald 13.17.Chicago 1 at Toronto 3Chicago &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Mortson. Thomson. Cushenan. Vasko. Pilote; forwards: Litzenberger, Hull. Lindsay. Kachur, Relbol. Murphy, Ferguson, Skoy, Nesterenko, Dean Dineen.Toronto &mdash; Goal: Chadwick; defense: Morrison. Stewart, Reaume. Haun,. Brewer. forwards: Armstrong. Mahovlich. Morton. Harris James Masnick, Barry Cullen Pulford. Aidcorn, Nevin.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Fulford (Stewart, Masniok) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.28Penalties: Baun 2.48. Pilote (10 minute misconduct) 5.08, Dea 12.51. Thomson 17.47.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Chicago: Litzenheiger (Hull. Vaskol) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.55Penalties: Masnick 2.01. Baun 6.23, Kahui 8.21. Pulford 12.07, 18.32 two minors), Morison (two minors) 18.32. Pilote 19.25.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Toronto: Mahotlich (Morrison) .354&mdash;Toronto: Mabuvlich (Harry Cullen. Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.18Penalties; Horton 4.30, Thomson 7.45. Hull (major) 10.16. Armstrong (major) 10.46 19.57, Morrison 12.33. Nesterenko 13.02.Detroit 6 at Boston 1Boston &mdash; Goal: Lumiey. defense:. Stanley. Hillman. Mohns. Bionda: forwards: McKenney. Macken. Toppazzini. Horvath, Srasink. Bucyk, Regan, Labhre, Peirsori. Boone. Johnson.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk: defense: pronovost. Godfrey. Arbour. Kelly, Goegan: forwards: Ullman, McIntyre. Howe. Wilson. Delvecchio. Mickoski, Leewiek, Kennedy, Poile, Bailey, McNeill.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit : Ullman * (Howe. Kelly) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.072&mdash;Detroit: Bailey (Delvecchio, Arbour) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.37Penalties: Stanley 1.29, Goegan. Labine 4.21. Leswick 4.42, Pronovost 8.56. McNeill 15.50.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Detroit: McIntyre (Hove. Godfrey) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.094&mdash;Boston: Harvath (Stasiuk, Hiomia) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.275&mdash;Detroit: Howe (McNeill. Pronovost) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.366&mdash;Detroit: McIntyie Hillman. Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.537&mdash;Detroit: McIntyre (Ullman, Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.01Penalties: Stasiuk 9.86, Kennedy 15.33.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Arbour 10.12, Geogan, La Une 18.47.<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23</h2>Monteral 3 at Detroit 3Canadiens &mdash; Goal: Plante; defense: Hurvey. St. Laureni. Johnson, Turner. Bownass; forwards: Beliveau, Curry. Bonin, M. Richard, H. Riohard. Moore, pronovost. Toyette. Marshall, A. Pronovost.Detroit &mdash; Goal: Sawchuk; defense M. Pronovost, Godfrey. Arbour, Goe gan; forwards: Delvecchio, Kelly. Bailey. Ullman, Howe. McIntyre. Wilson. Miekoski, Leswick. Poile. Kennedy, McNeill.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Detroit: McNeill (Kennedy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.542&mdash;Canadiens: A. Pronovost (Goyette. Protost) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.80Penalties: M. Richflid 3.17. Kennedy 6.40. Johnson 9.43. Ullman. St. Laurent 14.33, M. Richard (misconduct) 14.33.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Detroit: Howe (M. Pronovost) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.154&mdash;Canadiens: Provost (Goyette. Harvey) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.005&mdash;Detroit: Delvecchio (Howe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.15Penalties: Arbour 6.39. Beliveau 9.43. Kelly 9.43 Kennedy 18.36, 17.54, Beliveau 14.54.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Canadiens: Moore (H. Richard, M. Richard) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.02Penalty: Beliveau 14.01.Boston 2 at Chicago 0Boston &mdash; Goal: Lumley; defense: Bionda, Mohns, Stanley, Hillman; for wards: La-bine. Regan. Johnson, Horvath. Stasiuk, Bucyk, McKenney, Toppazzini, Peirson, Boone. Hillman.Chicaco &mdash; Goal: Hall; defense: Pilot, Vasko, Morison. Thomson. Cushenan; forwards; Nesterenko, skoy. Murphy. Lindsay, Kachur. Rcibcl. Ferguson, Litzenberger. Hull, Dea. Dimeen.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Boston: Horvath (Stasiuk. Bionda) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.48Penalties: none<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: none.Penalties: none.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Boston: Staeriuk (Horvath) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.57Penalties: Cushenan 3.57. Kachur 9.26. Hillman 9.26. Regan 14.41.Toronto 2 at New York 4Toronto &mdash; Goal: Chedwick; defence: Morrison. Stewart. Reaume, Baun, Brewer; forwards: Armstrong, Horton, Mahovlich, Masnick, Harris. James, Barry Culle-n, Pulford, Aidcorn, Girard.New York &mdash; Goal: Worsley; defence: Gadsby, fivans, Fontipato, Howell. Gahan; forwards: Sullivan. Hebenton. Macdonald. Creighton, Bathgate. Henry. Popein. Lewicki, Gendron Foley. Ciesla.<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Toronto: Armstrong (Morrison. Horton) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.212&mdash;Toronto: James (Aidcorn, Morrison) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.18Penalties: Stewart 6.23. HoweH 13.34, Morrison 18.48.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;New York: Sullivan M4&mdash;New York: Creighton (Bathgate) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.14Penalty: Reaume 3.64.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;New York: Hathgote (Creighton, Ifenry) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.416&mdash;New York: Bathgatd (Popein) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.31Penalties: None.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-02311/1683025-1-eng-US/f0008-022.jpg" title="f0008-02" width="588" height="2262"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-03241/1683018-1-eng-US/f0008-032.jpg" title="f0008-03" width="582" height="1258"></div><h2>RECORD OF GOALKEEEPERS FOR SEASON 1957-58</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-04182/1683011-1-eng-US/f0008-042.jpg" title="f0008-04" width="589" height="452"></div><h2>PENALTIES IN MINUTES BY CLUBS</h2>DETROIT &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 630RANGERS &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 670TORONTO &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 680CHICAGO &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 722BOSTON &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 724CANADIENS &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 753 &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By KEN McKENZIE</div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;Fourteen points now separate the second and last-place teams in the National Hockey League. This is the biggest margin to exist for many weeks. New York Rangers are in second place with 60 points. Chicago Black Hawks are in last place with 46. In between, the Rangers and Chicago are Detroit Red Wings with 57, Boston Bruins with 54 and Toronto Maple Leafs with 48. Montreal Canadiens are off by tikemselves in first place with 83 points.Dickie Moore hold a two-point lead over teammate Henri Richard in the race for the Art Ross Trophy. Moore has 31 goals and 40 assists for 71 points. Richard has 25 goals and 44 assists for 69 points. Third place belongs to Andy Bathgate of the Rangers with 24 goals and 38 assists for 62 points. Detroit&rsquo;s Gordie Howe is in fourth place with 27 goals. 31 assists, 58 points. Bronco Horvath of Boston is next with 25 goals and 32 assists for 57 points.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-05131/1683063-1-eng-US/f0008-052.jpg" title="f0008-05" width="280" height="457"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn Hall</figcaption></div>Montreal&rsquo;s two top point-getters, Moore and Henri Richard, also lead in other scoring departments. Moore leads all players in goals scored with 31 and Richard is the assists leader with 44.Jacques Plante of Canadiens chalked up his ninth shutout of the season on February 20 the same night Maurice Richard came back to score two goals as Canadiens defeated Boston 4-0. Jacques Plante holds a commanding lead in the Vezina Trophy battle. Glenn Hall of Chicago rates second. Canadiens have had 122 goals scored against them in 59 tilts for a 2.07 average. Hall has a 2.61 average and has racked up seven shutouts.Most penalized player is Lou Fontinato of the Rangers with 136 penalty minutes. Montreal Canadiens are the most penalized team with a total of 753 minutes. &#9632;

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Howe Moves Up After Big Seven Point Weekend

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-06100/1683118-1-eng-US/f0008-062.jpg" title="f0008-06" width="293" height="453"></div>DETROIT. Mich.&mdash;Big Gordie Howe put the Red Wings into a more threatening position for second place last week by setting up a victory and a tie in two games for the Detroiters.Just three weeks ago Howe was injured and feared sidelined for six weeks. A couple of busted ribs in a game in Boston sidelined him and doctors said he&rsquo;d be watching games for over a month. But they didn&rsquo;t count on Howe&rsquo;s tremendous recuperative powers. He spent two days in hospital in Boston and then flew home to Detroit. He was supposed to be in pain. After three days in bed he asked dub officials if he could make a road trip to Montreal. They refused. Two days later he was up and around and on skates. He was given permission to skate lightly each day. But he forgot to pass on his orders to the club trainers and they let him go. He scrimmaged for two days and was back in action in two weeks, four shy of that predicted by the club doctors.Howe&rsquo;s record has been published and re-published. What he can&rsquo;t do on ice can be written on the head of a pin. What he can do on ice is perform like few others can.Take last Saturday afternoon for example. The Wings were playing the Boston Bruins in Detroit. Howe scored one goal and then set up Jack McIntyre on three and Normie Ullman with another. He was so outstanding that he was chosen the star of the game. Then the next night in Detroit the Wings and Canadiens met in a bruiser that ended in a 3-3 tie. Howe played his regular shift, killed penalties, played the point on the powerplays and carried the club for almost 60 minutes. He scored one goal and set up another in an outstanding game that had over 14,000 fans screaming. &#9632;

f0008-06

Playar-of-the-week

<h2>Barons Scored Most Goals</h2>The Cleveland Barons hold the record in the AHL for the most goals scored by a club in one season. In the 1949-50 season the Barons scored 357 goals in regular season play.<h2>An Unbeatable Record</h2>In 1953-54 the Cleveland Barons chalked up a record that can never be beaten. They played a full 70 game schedule and didn&rsquo;t have one single tie game at the end of regulation play.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-01360/1683163-1-eng-US/f0009-012.jpg" title="f0009-01" width="573" height="254"></div><h2>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19</h2>Hershey 0 at Cleveland 2<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Pauagabko 3.39. (Movor 3.58, Elik and Stankiewicz 8.47, Hollingworth 11.39 Poliziani 11.39, Kraftcheck 12.26.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Cleveland: Moore (Glover, Elik) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.01Penalties. Stankiewicz 4.31. Glover and. Davis 5.39, McLeHin and Hollingworth 5.37, Glover 10.02, Shvetz 16.30.<h3>Third Period</h3>2&mdash;Cleveland: Hudson (Moore, Glover) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.11Penalties; Polizlani 1.57. Haley 5.46, Price 7.19, Hollingworth 12.41, Poliziani and Davis 12.11 Elik (2-majors). Geogan, Glover. Hollingworth (2 majors), Haley. Zeide 19.25.Buffalo 3 at Spring field 10<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Buffalo: Hassard. (Bettio, Janksowski &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 0.152&mdash;Springfield: Johnson (Nicholson, Pidhlrny) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.543&mdash;Springfield: Johnson (unassisted) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.454&mdash;Springfield: Chevtefils (Caffery, Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.105&mdash;Springfield. Chevvefils (Armstrong, Calfcry) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.026&mdash;Springfield: Ehman (Gardner, Armstrong) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.43Penalty Blonda. (tripping) 12.42.<h3>Second Period</h3>7&mdash;Buffalo Hevgesheimer (Wilson, Martin) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.318&mdash;Spring field: Gardner (Smith, Ehman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.069&mdash;Springfield: Armstrong (Chevrefiln. Schinkel) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.0410&mdash;Springfield: Schneider (Ehman, Gardner) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.4611&mdash;Springfield: Gardner (Smith. Ehuar.) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.5412&mdash;Springfield: Schinkel (Chevrefills. Puffery) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.19Penalty: Blonda (handling buck) 3.28.<h3>Third Period</h3>13&mdash;Buffalo: Bcttio (Jankowski, Hussaxd) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.05Penalties: Corcoron (crosa rhnclo 13.01. Ehman (highs tick 13.01 Cherry (boarding) 14.52, Schneider (roughing) 15.48.<h2>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22</h2>Hershey 2 at Springfield 3<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Springfield: Andersen (Gardener. Smith) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.33Penally: Mathers.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Springfield: Smith (Gardner, Ehman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.52Penalties: KuHman. Hollingworth. (min. and miscon.) Cerry. Dewsbury.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Hershey: Davis (Solinger. Haley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5.014&mdash;Hershey: Fisher (Marshall, Price) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.51Penalties: Anderson. Mathers.<h3>Overtime Period</h3>5&mdash;Springfield: Armstrong (Pidhlrny, Beckett) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 0.33Penalty: None.Cleveland 6 at Rochester 1<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Rochester, Smrke (Langlois, Laforge) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14:33Penalties Mazur 2, Price, Poiiziani, Shovetz, Migay.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Cleveland, Hogan (Stearns, McLellan.) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17:003&mdash;Cleveland, Elik (Glover, Moore) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.35Penalties: None.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Cleveland, Shvetz (Poliziani, Velprava) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1:555&mdash;Cleveland. Steams (Bouchard. Hudson.) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6:376&mdash;Cleveland: Poliziani) (Vejprava, Shvetz) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10:357&mdash;Cleveland, McLellan (Stearns Bouchard) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13:98Penalties: McLellan, Langlois.<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23</h2>Hershey 3 at Providence 7<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Providence; Bartlett (Sweeney. Cline) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.532&mdash;Hershey: Davis (Duff) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.003&mdash;Providence: Collins (Irwin) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.34Penalties; Larivee, Dewsbury. Davis, Robertson, Duff, O&rsquo;Brien.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Providence: Koss (Collins, fluidolin) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.255&mdash;Providence: Carmichael (Bedard, Larivee) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.316&mdash;Hershey; Davis (Zeidel) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.47Penalties: Sweeney, Duff, Guidojin, Zeldel.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Providence: Bartlett (O&rsquo;Brien. Marshall) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.548&mdash;Hershey: Fisher (Sweeney, Cline) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.489&mdash;Providence: Bartlett (Sweeney) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.2610&mdash;Providence: Bartlett (Sweeny.) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.22Penalties: Dewsbury, Irwin Zeidrl, Sweeny, Panagabl.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-02338/1683156-1-eng-US/f0009-022.jpg" title="f0009-02" width="569" height="602"></div><h2>LEADERS</h2>Most Goals &mdash; Willie Marshall, Hershey, 33.Most Assists &mdash; Jimmy Moore, Cleveland, 52.Most Penalized Player &mdash; Bob Robertson, Providence, 140.Most Penalized Club &mdash; Hershey, 821 mts.Best Goalie &mdash; Johnny Bower, Cleveland, 57, 125, 8, 2.19.Most Shutouts &mdash; Johnny Bower, Cleveland, 8.<h2>GOALKEEPERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-03291/1683149-1-eng-US/f0009-032.jpg" title="f0009-03" width="576" height="292"></div> &#9632;

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AMERICAN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By HANS TANNER</div>ROCHESTER, N.Y&mdash;Rudy Migay, a veteran of nearly seven seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, has been added to the roster of the Rochester Americans for the stretch drive.The addition of Migay, a 5-10, 169-pound-centre, is a welcome one to the Amerks.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-04250/1683194-1-eng-US/f0009-042.jpg" title="f0009-04" width="548" height="1143"><figcaption class="caption-body">Crosses The BorderRudy Migay</figcaption></div>Rochester still is in a dogfight with Springfield for the fourth and final playoff berth in the American League.Toronto sent Migay here after recalling winger Gerry, James, the football hero, earlier in the week.To get Migay to Rochester, the Leafs had to put him up for grabs for the $1.5,000 waiver price to the other NHL clubs. When all passed on him, Rudy was on the way.He joined the Americans in time for the big weekend series February 21st here against Hershey, the 22nd in Cleveland, and the 23rd hack here against Cleveland.This isn&rsquo;t Migay&rsquo;s first appearance in the AHL.Rudy broke into professional hockey with the. Pittsburgh Hornets back in 1,948. In his rookie season, the hustling Migay counted 21 goals and 31 assists. He bit the 20-goal mark in three of his four seasons with the Hornets before joining the Leafs for good near the end of the 1951-52 campaign.With Toronto, Migay&rsquo;s scoring improved every season &mdash; until this one. He had 9 points in 40 games in 1952-53, 23 points in 70 games the following season, 24 points in 67 starts in 195455, 28 points the next year, and tallied 35 last season on 15 goals and 20 assists.He dropped to 7 goals and 14 assists for 21 points in 40 games this season with the Leafs.Rudy obviously was disappointed when Billy Reay, Toronto coach, told him that he was going to try and waive him out of the league. Reay told Migay on Sunday night, Feb. 16 on the train hack to Toronto after a loss in Detroit.But Migay went along with the move to Rochester &mdash; and the Amerks are happy for themselves that the move was made.Where earlier in the season. Coach Roly McLenahan had to shift wings to centre and even used a defenseman there one night now he has too many.With the arrival of Migay, the Americans have five centres on the squad. Centering the lines are Kay Cyr (obtained in the one-season deal for Gary Collins), Skippy Burchell and Mike Nykoluk. Cecil Hoekstra has been used as the spot man, and is mainly a penalty killer.By the time this reaches print. McLenahan undoubtedly will have made his selections, but at the moment he&rsquo;s faced with the happy task of too many centres.ICICLES The smallest crowd in the near-two year history of the Rochester Americans &mdash; 1,398 &mdash; watched the Amerks spill Springfield, 3-1. in a crucial game here Sunday. February 16 Reason for the small turnout was the blizzard that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the city that day and the next. Club officials expected only a couple of a hundred to show because of the Weather conditions &hellip; Big Ab McDonald, who probably will be given a good shot at making the Montreal Canadiens next season, is having an even better year than he did as a freshman in the pro ranks last season. Ah tallied 21 goals and 31 assists for 52 points for the Amerks in his first year as a pro. He&rsquo;s got 24 goals and 25 assists in the first 55 games this season.McDonald, incidentally, hasn&rsquo;t missed a Rochester game since he joined the club. He played in all 64 league games in 1956-57, and didn&rsquo;t miss any of the first 55 this year. Earl Balfour, who&rsquo;s tied with McDonald for the lead in goals with 24 missed one last season, and has gone all the way this year. Williams is right behind having missed only two last season. &#9632;

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Migay Arrives To Aid Americans In Battle For Fourth

PROVIDENCE. R. I.&mdash;When Jim Bartlett was a junior, playing for the Verdun Cyclones he was a defenseman. He was wild and tough. He took foolish penalties and it was freely predicted that he&rsquo;d never make good in the ranks of those who play for pay.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0009-05192/1683225-1-eng-US/f0009-052.jpg" title="f0009-05" width="276" height="431"></div>But Jimmy has fooled them. Now he&rsquo;s a left winger, still tough, but a lot more polished. Now he scores goals with wreckless abandon. So much so that the Rangers are keeping a watchful eye on him, hoping that he&rsquo;ll soon be ready for the short trip from Providence to New York.Last week Bartlett duplicated a feat by scoring four goals in a game for the second time this season. Earlier this season he scored four goats against the Rochester Americans and also set a league record. He put two pucks behind goaler Gerry McNeil in five seconds.Last week the rugged left winger scored five goals and added one assist for six point.On Friday night February 21st he scored a goal and assisted on another as the Reds downed the Buffalo Bisons 7-4 in Providence.On Sunday night the Reds defeated the league leading Hershey Bears 7-3 in Providence and Bartlett scored four of his club&rsquo;s goals.Bartlett, who comes from Verdun, Quebec, home of such stars as Jim Morrison of the Leafs, Don Marshall of the Canadiens and Bucky Hollinaworth of Hershey started his career in the system of the Montreal Canadiens. In fact he played two games for the Habs back in 1954-55. The next season he was drafted by the Rangers from the Chicoutimi club of the Quebec Hockey League and he&rsquo;s been going like a house on fire ever since. Last season he scored 21 goals and 22 assists for 43 points. &#9632;

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Player-of-the-week

PROVIDENCE, R.L&mdash;One of the most productive scoring streaks ever enjoyed in the American Hockey League for a single forward unit, was that of the Providence combination of center Paul Larivee, leftwing Bruce Carmichael and rightwing Zellio Toppazzini recently. In two successive games, against Springfield on February 9 and Buffalo on February 12, the trio scored 7 consecutive Provider! goals. Larivee had 5 of them with Toppazzini tallying the other pair. Between them they divided the 14 maximum assists for the 7 goals, with Carmichael getting 7, Toppazzini 5 and Larivee the other 2. Larivee had all 3 Providence goals in a 4-3 loss to Springfield on February 9, and then he and Toppazzini divided the first 4 goals in a 75 victory over Buffalo on February 12. &#9632;

Reds’ Trio Scores Seven In Row; Poul Gets Five Of Them

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>While some may question the quality, there is no argument about the quantity of manpower which Detroit Red Wings have employed this season.Rookies Dave Amadio and Stu McNeill, who popped into the lineup recently, became the 33rd and 34th players to wear Detroit harness in the campaign&rsquo;s first 55 games.This became an all-time team record according to Fred Huber, the club historian. It also is the top count this year in the National League where 150 players (an average of 25 a team) have been used already.Actually a 35th Detroiter also has seen NHL action. Assistant trainer Ross (Lefty) Wilson got a call as an emergency goalie out he appeared with Boston Bruins that night.Four of the Detroit players have been in the special category which lists Amadio and McNeill. Along with Brian Smith and Murray Oliver, they came from the Hamilton Juniors under the five-game amateur tryout clause.Several pros also saw extremely limited action. Jack Hendrickson suited up for one game, Dennis Olson and Bill McCreary for three and puzzling Guyle Fielder for six.A couple of years ago the Boston Bruins finally ended their longest jinx in the loop when, on the 23 rd try, they finally won a game at Detroit Olympia.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll even that up some way,&rdquo; promised Milt Schmidt, whose skaters have started the same trend on their own pond. Wings now have gone a full year without winning at Boston and the string has reached nine games, all defeats.Bruins beat Detroit in their final regular-season game at Boston a year ago, added two more triumphs in working a tremendous playoff upset and then copped six in a row this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-01374/1683301-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="258" height="420"><figcaption class="caption-body">Murray Oliver</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02313/1683294-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="272" height="448"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tony Leswick</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-03266/1683287-1-eng-US/f0010-032.jpg" title="f0010-03" width="274" height="450"><figcaption class="caption-body">Terry Sawchuk</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-04207/1683280-1-eng-US/f0010-042.jpg" title="f0010-04" width="262" height="418"><figcaption class="caption-body">Guyle Fielder</figcaption></div>Furthermore, these have been lopsided victories much to the chagrin of Terry Sawchuck. There is no club Terry would rather beat than Boston and no place he&rsquo;d rather do it than in Boston where he was the goalie for 1&frac12; seasons before departing under rather bitter circumstances.But so far the results there have been all-Boston. Sawchuk bowed by successive scores of 4-0, 4-2, 7-2. 4-1, 5-3 and 5-0, and three times the Bruins took more than 50 shots at him.The Wings bounced back from the 5-0 beating, however, to post two successive victories over the Maple Leafs last weekend. The home-and-home series which loomed so important to the Toronto cause saw the Wings grab a 6-3 triumph at Toronto before adding a 4-1 victory here.In the Toronto version Red Kelly triggered a second-period explosion in which Detroit turned a 1-1 tie into a 5-1 lead in a space of six minutes.Sawchuk put on the party here the next night by holding the Leafs to a 1-1 tie through the first period even though they carried a 17-5 edge in shots. Some observers called it Sawchuk&rsquo;s finest 20 minutes of the season.Tony Leswick, the Mighty Mouse of hockey, finally collected his first goal since being recalled from Edmonton, where he played the last two seasons and was playing-coach earlier this season. &#9632;

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CLUBHOUSE CONFIDENTIAL

SPRINGFIELD, Mass&mdash;One minute, he was in the stands enjoying the hockey game between Springfield and Buffalo. Fifteen minutes later he was on the ice tending goal for the visiting Bisons and putting himself in front of bullet-like professional shots for the first time.That&rsquo;s the kind of night a young man named Hank Kasberian had at the Springfield Coliseum &mdash; and it shouldn&rsquo;t happen to a pro, never mind an amateur like him.Hank was called into action when Buffalo&rsquo;s regular goalie Gerry&rsquo; McNamara was hurt midway through the second period. The Bisons didn&rsquo;t have anyone else, so the home club had to furnish someone &mdash; and Hank was the man.Who is he?<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-05164/1683332-1-eng-US/f0010-052.jpg" title="f0010-05" width="284" height="449"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bob Armstrong</figcaption></div>He&rsquo;s not known to hockey fans outside of amateur circles, where he formerly played for AIC and the Springfield Flyers. Now a Springfield insurance man. he plays Sunday nights with Monte Carlo in the Senior League.&ldquo;I was so nervous I couldn&rsquo;t move,&rdquo; he admitted after the game should have had two out of the first three, but I let them get by me.&rdquo;Although the Indians rolled. 10-3. Kas didn&rsquo;t do as badly as he w&rsquo;ould have you think. He made one save in the second period and allowed three goals, but in the third session he made eight stops&mdash;several of them on hard blasts&mdash;while holding the Tribe scoreless.Buffalo, striving to get out of the cellar, and into the playoffs, is certainly having goal tending troubles. With McNamara sidelined again and with Al Millar taken away by Quebec, Bison general manager Fred Hunt admits that I don&rsquo;t know what to do.&rdquo;He said he may try to purchase young Bob Senior, who is owned by Eddie Shore.McNamara returned to action after missing six games due to an injured thigh. He said he Was all right going into the game, but reported that he was hurt in the first three minutes while making a kick-out save.Then, Bob Armstrong kayoed him as he tried to slide on Springfield&rsquo;s seventh goal which came at 10.04 of the middle period.GARRY BROWN Springfield Union. &#9632;

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Springfield Insurance Man Finds Goaling No Fun Without Insurance

<div class="byline">By GEOFFREY FISHER</div>CLEVELAND, O.&mdash;How they going to keep Bo Elik off the American Hockey League All Star team?How they going to argue with that brilliant two-year record?Elik made it all last winter with a sweep of the rookie of the year honors and the All Star left wing slot. He left little room for doubt by blasting 40 goals. He made it look especially appealing by ringing up 40 assists to go with the 40 goals. And just to prove he was willing to mix it. he got himself sentenced to 82 minutes in the cooler.That was Elik, the freshman. One of the great first year performances in American Hockey League history.Now, of course, more rookies fall victim to the second year jinx than to any other obstacle.Not so Blazing Bo.He is putting together another memorable campaign with stick and skates and his scoring strength is a major factor in the Barons rush for the pennant.<h2>Tops Solinger&rsquo;s Years</h2>Boris (Bo) Elik has knocked out the sophomore jinx.He&rsquo;s going to land in the 30-goal circle which will give him the best first two seasons ever recorded in the league by one player.Despite a recent blast from Boss Jim Hehdy that &ldquo;Elik is not producing up to his capacity,&rdquo; the star left winger is etching another great campaign.The two-year record of the sinewy, six-foot, 190-pound Elik already has surpassed the brilliant beginning of Bobby Solinger, who made rookie of the year with the Barons a decade ago. Solinger, now a star with the league leading Hershey Bears, had 40 goals his first season but then slumped off to 16 the next.You&rsquo;ve got lo eliminate the historic fears of Camille Henry who rapped 50 goals his first year in the league, two winters baick&hellip;Henry moved to other pastures after that romp.Another one that has to be passed over is the record of Wally Hergesheimer who ia 1951 set the all-time rookie record while with the Barons when he shot 42 goals. Wally, too. moved from the league the following winter.<h2>Ups Penalty Minutes</h2>With 14 games still to play in the regular season, Elik this year had connected for 26 red lights and had assisted on 31 more. He was showing even more spirit in the clutches as he topped last winter&rsquo;s penalty time with 84 minutes.But the impressive thing about Blazing Bo&rsquo;s second year brilliance is that has been done it in the face of road blocks that might have stalled a lad of less determination.Elik was the center of a storm that tore the top off the Barons famed GEM Line of Freddy (No Kid) Glover. Elik and Jimmy Moore last spring. As a result of that incident lie was abruptly dumped to the Barons third platoon at the outset of this season.On the third unit he found himself playing with a makeshift unit that was never quite the same from one game to the next. Coach Jackie Gordon, who makes any line click, was sometimes in and sometimes out. Otherwise there was a parade of names in and out with Elik.After a month of this Coach Gordon decided to revive the GEM Line in an effort to recover some of the Barons lost wallop.Bo took heart and took enemy nets all in the same move. He started scoring as he did a year ago when he struck fear into the hearts of all goalies.Then, suddenly, trouble struck again. This time it was Glover&rsquo;s knee. The mighty rifle on the Barons right side was caught against the boards in a game at Buffalo and the GEM Line was limping again.Who does Elik have to beat out for the League&rsquo;s All Star left wing post?His top competition appears to be Hershey&rsquo;s Obie O&rsquo;Brie and Providence&rsquo;s Brune Carmichael. Then there are Bobber Solinger, Dick Gamble, Pidhirny. Eddie Mazur and Ab McDonald.But none of these has been able to match Elik&rsquo;s blazing stick nor his aggressive style.Possibly his toughest foe was eliminated by injury. That was Providence&rsquo;s Eddie Shack, twice victim of a broken leg this season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-0882/1683401-1-eng-US/f0010-082.jpg" title="f0010-08" width="509" height="824"><figcaption class="caption-body">It Puts OutBo Elik</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Go, GoBo Well On Way To Putting Best First Two Seasons Together

BUFFALO, N.Y.&mdash;When you are looking for the American League rookie with the mostest, then you must look for the AHL rookie who was also the quietest. That was Don Marshall. a member of the Buffalo Bisons in 1953-54. and presently with the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL.In his rookie season with the Bisons Marshall set a record for points by a first year man. He scored 94 points on 39 goals and 55 assists. He won the rookie-of-the-year honors and was also one of the cleanest players in the league, having spent only eight minutes in the penalty box. Marshall centered the great line of Gaye Stewart and Eddie Slowinski&mdash;a line that led the Bisons to their last AHL title. &#9632;

Marshall, Rookie With The Mostest, Also The Quietest

<h2>Pelletier Leads Goalers</h2>Marcel Pelletier of Vancouver continues to lead the goalkeepers and reduced his goals against average to 2.33 per game the past week. He also pick up his sixth shutout of the season when he blanked Victoria.<h2>Milford&rsquo;s Gets First</h2>Howie Milford of Saskatoon St. Paul scored his first goal of the season Saturday. Feb, 15th, in Winnipeg. It was Milford&rsquo;s 49th game. Gordie Tattle of Seattle is the only player who has played all games and is scoreless.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-01373/1683470-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg" title="f0011-01" width="584" height="461"></div><h2>TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11</h2>Victoria 1 at Vancouver 6<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: MacQueen (Currie, JohanSem) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.30Penalties: Baliuk 4.04, Dobbyn 18,59.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Vancouver: Powers (Kurtenbach, Currie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.043&mdash;Vancouver: Chorley &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.314&mdash;Vancouver: Hutchinson (Dobbyn, Currie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.16Penalties: McCarthy and Dobbyn 8.33, Raglan 15.12, Egan 16.40.<h3>Third Period</h3>5&mdash;Victoria: Baliuk (Bulloch, Haworth) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.146&mdash;Vancouver: Currie (Maloney, Robinson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.117&mdash;Vancouver: Powers (Dobbyn. Kurtenbach) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.34Penalties: Pelletier (served by MacQueen) 17.39,Winnipeg 3 at Calgary 6<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Calgary: Ford (F. Hucul, D. Blair) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.562&mdash;Winnipeg; Ingarfield (Witiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.453&mdash;Calgary: Marietta &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.12penalties: Keating 4.01, 15.31.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Winnipeg: Kapusta (Stratton) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.495&mdash;Calgary: Sclisizzi D. Blair, F. Hueu) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.586&mdash;Calgary: Wilkie (Finney. Ford) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.40Penalty: Summers 1.52.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Calgary: Kuryluk (Marcetta, S. Hucul) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.398&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Witiuk, Lamoureaux) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.029&mdash;Calgary: Wilkie (Finney, F. Hucul) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.55Penalties: Keating 14.43, Lamoureaux 18.46.<h2>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12</h2>Victoria 2 at New Westminster 7<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New Westminster: Jones (Edmundson, Hannigan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.262&mdash;Victoria: Macauley (McCarthy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.013&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan (Jones, Bergeron) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.094&mdash;New Westminster: Van Impe (Schmautz, Bergeron) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.13Penalties: Kaiser 1.57.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;New Westminster: Jones (Creighton, Edmundson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.536&mdash;New Westminster: Barlow 11.30Penalties: Raglan and floodwin 1.54, Edmundson 8.33, Egan (major) 3.45, Kaiser (minor and misconduct) 9.22, Van Impe 14.15, and 19.59, Egan 15.53.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;New Westminster: Edmundson (Jones, Hannigan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.068&mdash;New Westminster: Edmundson (Matthews, Hannigan) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.469&mdash;Victoria: Wilson Kalser, McCarby &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.48Penalties; None.Winnipeg 6 at Edmonton 3<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Edmonton: Holmes (McCreary, Melnyk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.222&mdash;Edmonton: McPherson (McCreary) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.593&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Lamoureuj) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.114&mdash;Winnipeg: Mosienko (Stratton. Summers) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.20Penalties: Kilburn .08, Arnett 2.47.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Edmonton: Coflin (Lunde, Ginnell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.356&mdash;Winnipeg: Lea &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.55Penalties: Leonard 11.25, Stratton 15.28, Coflin 18.37.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Winnipeg: Witiuk (Lamoureux, Ingarfield &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.578&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Witiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.229&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Summers, Witiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.19Penalties: Summer 11.38. Kilburn (minor and major), Mikulan (major served by Glover). Melnyk (major), Lea (major) 17.20, Mosienko 19.05.<h2>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11</h2>Victoria 4 at Seattle 5<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Seattle: Boyce (Sinclair, Chiupka) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.172&mdash;Seattle: Boyce (Fielder) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.083&mdash;Victoria: Baliuk (Kaiser, Haworth) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.07Penalties: Baliuk 6.26, Tottle 16.52.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Victoria: Baliuk (Haworth) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.305&mdash;Victoria: Dorohoy (Baliuk, Haworth) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.31Penalties: Raglan 2.59, Repka 17.48.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Seattle: McFarland (Kukulowicz, Repka) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.147&mdash;Seattle: Sinclair (Chiupka, Fillion) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 11.118&mdash;Victoria: Olson (Yanchuk, Kaiser) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.409&mdash;Seattle: Filion (Chiupka, Boyce) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.32Penalty: Tottle 9.18.New Westminster 3 at Vancouver 2<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: MacQueen &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.132&mdash;New Westminster: McNab 19.32Penalties: McNab 3.37, MacQueen 6.29, Creighton 10.11.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;New Westminster: Fashoway (McNab, Matthews) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.21Penalties: Schmautz .40, Barlow 5.12, McNab 5.55, Edmundson 8.38.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;Vancouver: Hutchinson (Kurtenbach, Currie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.555&mdash;New Westminster: Hannigan (Edmundson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.28Penalties: Meldo 2.14. Barlow 3.59, Creighton 6.16.<h2>SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15</h2>Vancouver 1 at Victoria 0<h3>First Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Currie 11.54, Bulloch 15.19.<h3>Second Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod (Currie, Maloney) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.11Penalties: Yanchuk. McLeod 3.09, Hart 6.52.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: MacQueen 4.14, Currie. Egan 14.41Seattle 0 at New Westminster 4<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;New Westminster: Hrymnak (Fashoway, Matthews) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.54Penalties: Sinclair 1.55, Van Impe 8.28, Boyce 16.24.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;New Westminster: Creighton (Van Impe) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.413&mdash;New Westminster: Hrymnak &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.39Penalties: Van Impe 1.30, Kukulowicz 5.33, Hannigan, Tottle majors) 16.40, Edmundson 17.37, MacFarland 18 09.<h3>Third Period</h3>4&mdash;New Westminster: Matthews (Hannigan. Jones) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.58Penalties: Hannigan 6.25, 11.26. Tottle 11.26, Creighton, Kuzma (majors) IS.29.Edmonton 1 at Calgary 5<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Calgary: Finney (Mlchaluk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.28Penalties: Houghton (bench penalty) 2.56. Houghtor (bench penalty) 5.10, Yanosik 6.25. Coflin 11.18, Leonard 15.02, Burton 19.10.,<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Edmonton: Melnyk (McPherson) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.20Penalty: Cotlin 16.08.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Calgary: Sclisizzi (B. Blair, F. Hucul) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.034&mdash;Calgary: Sclisizzi (C. Blair) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.485&mdash;Calgary: Finney (Michaljik) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.336&mdash;Calgary&rsquo; Marcetta (Sclisizzi) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.29Penalties&rsquo; Ford 5.12, Yanosik 12.08.Saskatoon 8 at Winnipeg 7<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Lynn (Couture. Keller) * 18.01Penalties: Milford. Kapusta 18.20<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Lamoureaux) .203&mdash;Winnipeg: Witiuk (Arnett, Ingarfield) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.324&mdash;Winnipeg: Kapusta (Stratton, Keating) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.135&mdash;Winnipeg: Arnett (Witiuk, Ingarfield) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 3.466&mdash;Winnipeg: Lamoureaux (Witiuk. Ingarfield) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.217&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Raleigh (Chrystal, Kabel) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.038&mdash;Winnipeg; Lea (Summers, Witiuk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.359&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Milford (Couture, Lynn) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.32Penalties Keating 6.38. Milford 17.35.<h3>Third Period</h3>10&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Bentley 4.2311&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Primeau (Kabel) 9.2 412&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Ralelfljr (Milford. Lynn) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.4413&mdash;Winnipeg: Ingarfield (Summers. Lamoureaux) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.3914&mdash;Sask. St. Paul: Colwill (Kabol, Milford) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.59Penalties Moslenko 5.10 (misconduct) 19.59. Keating 6.25.<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16</h2>Vancouver 1 at Seattle 3<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Vancouver: Folk (Johnsen) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.482&mdash;Vancouver: Churley (Maloney, Folk) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.21Penalty: Folk 10.37.<h3>Second Period</h3>3&mdash;Seattle: Filion &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.544&mdash;Vancouver: McLeod (Johansen) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5.445&mdash;Seattle: McFaland Rieldor) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.356&mdash;Vanrnnver: Powers &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.14Penalty; Folk 12.52.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Seattle: Kinasewich (Fonteyne) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.30Penalty: Tottle 7.55.<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-02330/1683463-1-eng-US/f0011-022.jpg" title="f0011-02" width="590" height="1068"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-03268/1683456-1-eng-US/f0011-032.jpg" title="f0011-03" width="574" height="337"></div><h2>THE LEADERS</h2>Most Goals Sia Finney, Cal. 35.Most Assists Guyle Fielder, Sea. 61.Most Game Winning Goals Orland Kurtenbach, Van., Ja McLeod, Van., 6.Most Game Winning Assists PhilMaloney, 11.Most First Goal of Game Sid Finney, Cal. 10.Most Goafs One tame Jackie McLeod, Van. I.Most Assists One Game Phil Maloney, Van. 6.Most Hat Tricks Dennis Olson, Vic. 3.Most Minutes in Penalties Garry Edmundson, N.W. 155. Egan, Vic. 135.Most Shutouts Marcel Pelletier. Van. 6. &#9632;

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WESTERN LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By DALLIS BECK</div>WINNIPEG, Man.&mdash;It took a while, but Donald (Bones) Raleigh is getting back into shape &mdash; verbally and physically.Ol&rsquo; Bones had just spearheaded his last-place Saskatoon-St. Paul Regals to the greatest comeback victory this season in the Western Hockey League. They had trailed by four goals twice after the halfway mark of the game against the top-dog Winnipeg Warriors. They not only tied it, they spotted the Warriors another lead at 18.39 of the last period, then yanked goalkeeper Lucien Dechene and tied it and won it 8-7 in the last 15 seconds of regulation time.Unbelievable but shockingly true to Winnipeg Arena customers, and Raleigh was there, in his old-time form as the playing coach.The 31-year-old Raleigh relaxed his weary and wiry chassis on a dressing room bench after the hectic finish.&ldquo;Are there any sportswriters in this room,&rdquo; he yelled.Your agent stepped up front and centre in reply to the question.&lsquo;Aha,&rdquo; puffed Bones, &ldquo;finally, the mountain has come to Mohammed.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-04216/1683501-1-eng-US/f0011-042.jpg" title="f0011-04" width="538" height="639"><figcaption class="caption-body">Don Raleigh</figcaption></div>Don was fiercely proud of his victory and of his boys, the oldsters like Doug Bentley, Doc Couture, Vic Lynn, Howie Milford or Dechene, and the others like Les Colwill, Bob Chrystal, Billy Bucyk, and the kids like Reg Primeau or Bob Kabel.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about time you guys came around here&rdquo;, Bones went on. &ldquo;You been making jokes and cracks about this team all year. So how do you like &rsquo;em now?&rdquo;Bones was right.The Regals, the orphans of western pro hockey, have been the meat for most of the WHL writers best digs. They live out of a suitcase between Saskatoon and St. Paul and &ldquo;play on the road&rdquo; the rest of the time.&ldquo;Sure we have to be the best road club in the league&rdquo;, agreed Raleigh. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re always on it.&rdquo;But Bones was just drinking in the nectar of a great victory. Warriors had fired five goals through them in the space of four minutes and 11 seconds in the second period and they still bounced back.<h2>Old Doug Bentley Worries About Juniors</h2>Forty-one-year old Doug Bentley, between wondering if his Saskatoon Quaker juniors would make the playoffs, put in on the just-concluded game. &ldquo;For a while there, I thought they might get 25 before we collected our wits.&rdquo;Raleigh was more relaxed by now.&ldquo;Seriously fellows&rdquo;, he politely addressed the little group of listeners in front of him. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad you came around. Always good to meet the press.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s Bones Raleigh. With two goals and an awful lot of other work out on the ice, he nearly bust his braces in an effort to pull his Regals off the canvas.He made it and was proud of it.The Regals will travel half-way around the world before the schedule ends and they may finish out of the money.But as long as Bones Raleigh is around you&rsquo;ll know they went out fighting. &#9632;

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Regals Will Travel Half-Way Round The Earth To Make Grade

SEATTLE, Wash.&mdash;After going the most of the season without any serious injuries a rash of them came up last week. Metro Prystai of Edmonton fractured a leg and is out for the season. Saturday might, February 15th. Orland Kurtenbach, brilliant Vancouver Rookie dislocated his shoulder and will be out the balance of the season. During the same game Stan Baliuk of the Victoria Cougars fractured a bone in his ankle and will not play any more dining the regular schedule. &#9632;

Injuries Sideline Prystai, Kurtenbach, Baliuk For Year

<div class="byline">By MARSHALL DANN</div>DETROIT, Mich &mdash;A season of disappointment has ended abruptly for Metro Prystai on one sad final note.The stocky little forward, a veteran of 10 years in the National Hockey League and a Red Wing until a few weeks ago, is through for the year with a broken leg.Prystai was hurt while playing for the Edmonton Flyers in the Western League whom he had re-joined only recently after an abortive stay with the parent Detroiters.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-05179/1683556-1-eng-US/f0011-052.jpg" title="f0011-05" width="552" height="532"><figcaption class="caption-body">Metro Prystai</figcaption></div>The injury topped a season in which everything went wrong for Prystai, one of the NHL&rsquo;s most popular players and a long-time favorite with the fans in Detroit and Chicago.His troubles started early. Last September in the Detroit training camp he was demoted unexpectedly to the Flyers after 10 straight years in the NHL.Jack Adams decided that Prystai had lost too much speed to make his rebuilt club, where the accent was to be on speed and youth.Prystai, 30, refused to concede that he was all washed up. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back with the Wings by Christmas.&rdquo; he told his friends, and then went West with the Flyers to prove it.One rookie prospect after another flopped with Detroit so Prystai finally got the nod late in November. While still unable to show his o)d flash, he still had enough to stick with Wings as a utility player.The next blow fell on Christmas Night as the Wings played at Boston. Hurt in a pileup, Prystai came home for treatment and x-rays found a hairline fracture of the left ankle.After a three-week recovery period, Prystai gave it another try. Regretfully, Jack Adams shuffled him back to Edmonton because even Tony Leswick, at tile age of 34, showed more maneuverability.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be back to help in the playoffs,&rdquo; Prystai promised this time.Then came the report from Bud Poile, general manager at Edmonton. Prystai had crashed into a goal post the previous night and the hospital report indicated a cracked shin bone. Metro, said the doctors, will play no more hockey this season. &#9632;

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Tough Luck Year Ends With Metro Fitted For Cast

<div class="byline">By GEORGE METZGER</div>PHILADELPHIA, Pa.&mdash;That old sports bugaboo &ldquo;injury&rdquo; has struck the Philadelphia Ramblers &mdash; and how.Plagued by injuries all during the season, they started to pile up even worse with about a month remaining in the Eastern Hockey League season.As a result, the EHL gave the Philly club permission to bring in some extra help even though it was after the February 10 deadline at which time the six club rosters were frozen.One man last year&rsquo;s runner-up secured was Kenny Tressor, young winger cut by the New Haven Blades after playing with them since the beginning of the season. Tressor went to camp with the Ramblers, but right before opening game was sent with great reluctance&rdquo; to New Haven. But the Blades released him for the February deadline.The Ramblers were also given a week to sign another player, but did not yet do so at this writing.In one game, the Ramblers dressed only 12 men &mdash; two under the EHL limit of 14. They were beaten by New Haven, 3-1. But a couple days later, they were even in worse shape.Defenseman Teddy Harris came down with the flu and reduced the Ramblers playing force to 11 able body skaters. Tressor was acquired before this game, but to some mysterious reason did not report for it.In this game, however, the Redshirts knowing their backs were up against the wall put on the most dazzling display of hockey this town has seen all season.<h2>Greatest Victory Ever</h2>Hustling all the way, coach Chirp Brenchley&rsquo;s crew defeated the league leading Charlotte Clippers, 3-2. Crafty Clipper coach Andy Brown tried to take advantage of the fact the Ramblers were shorthanded by wearing them down even more. He put new lines on the ice every minute instead of the customary two minutes.Beaming after the game, Rambler club president George L. Davis Jr. called it &ldquo;the greatest victory we ever recorded.&rdquo; He congratulated each member of the team.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-01367/1683587-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="548" height="857"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rough GoingChirp Brenchley</figcaption></div>Ray Crew, the big bad defenseman of the Ramblers, was the first to make the hospital list. He suffered a serious back injury, which will require off season surgery, and is Out for the season.Jim Moore, another defenseman, suffered a badly sprained ankle just a few games after returning to the ice from a bout with an appendectomy. He has missed a total of six weeks.Gil MacNeil, fiery little winger, did considerable damage to his knee when he collided with a goalpost. It is in a cast and sidelined for several weeks. Rambler brass hoped to have him back for the playoffs.Reggie Me Serve missed the tailend of the campaign with a badly twisted ankle which was placed in a castThese were the serious injuries. But several other players would have been out of the lineup under ordinary circumstances, but with the club hurting for talent, they stayed in the lineup.Little Rocky Rukavina suffered a broken nose twice in short period of time. But it is a painful elbow injury that really troubles him. Versatile Bert Aikens is also recupperating from a broken nose along with a bad ankle and shoulder. Ray Savard, fancy skating center, has a bothersome knee.Alex Zubatiuk and Russ McClenaghan ate both long-time Charley Horse suffers, while newcomer Bill Binnie had a groin injury.Another important injury put Art Dorrington, smooth skating forward, out of action for the year and maybe then some &mdash; just a few games after he returned from a two year hitch in, the U.S. Army.Dorrington had his leg badly broken in a collision with Clinton Comets playing coach, Ed Calhoun. Art was being counted on heavily to help the Philly outfit in the stretch drive.One injured Rambler sitting out the rest of the campaign was heard to remark, &ldquo;Everybody was joking about Chirp (Brenchley, Rambler coach) getting into a suit and playing. But this season isn&rsquo;t over yet.&rdquo; &#9632;

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EHL Philly Club Cut To Dozen By Old Injury Jinx

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0012-02" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-02290/1683618-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Spins New RecordsButch MacKay</figcaption></div>CINCINNATI, O.&mdash;Although the Cincinnati Mohawks have clinched their sixth straight International Hockey League championship, coach Billy Goold is not going to let his forces slow down one bit.&ldquo;Why should we take it easy? Sure we&rsquo;ve clinched the title, but that doesn&rsquo;t make a darn bit of difference. If the boys take it easy, it will make them rusty for the playoffs and that&rsquo;s one thing I don&rsquo;t want to see,&rdquo; said Goold.Continuing the young mentor stated. &ldquo;We will play all of our remaining games just as if we were one game ahead of the league, fighting desperately for a championship.&rdquo;Butch MacKay. starry Mohawk rearguard broke a team record for defensemen in the 5-1 conquest of Louisville Tuesday February 11th in the Garden. MacKay added a pair of assists to his total to bring him to 48 for the season. Roly McLenahan, who is now coaching the Rochester Americans had 47 assists during the 1954-55 season.<h2>Butch Has 144 Assists</h2>MacKay also broke McLenahan&rsquo;s club record for the most assists by a defenseman for total seasons. McLenahan had 116 assists for four seasons, while MacKay has garnered in 144 so far in five campaigns.Likeable Butch is only nine points behind McLenahan for most points scored by a defenseman in one season McLenahan tallied 74 points in 1954-55. while MacKay has 64 with nine games to go.Another new record might be set for a Mohawk scoring the most goals in one season. Donnie Marshall now starring for the Montreal Canadiens had 46 goals during the 1952-53 campaign. Billy Sutherland who has chalked up 17 goals in ten games since being moved to center about a month ago, has 40 goals with nine games remaining.Warren Hynes still continues to lead the Mohawk point-getters with 80 points, 34 of them goals. He is closely followed by Sutherland with 75 and Bun Smith with 73. &#9632;

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Mohawks’ Rearguard Butch MacKay Scalps Two Records, Out For Three

<h2>Cats Had Best Streak</h2>The Shawinigan Falls Cataracts had the longest winning streak in the league last season. The Cats went a full seven games without a defeat.<h2>Eddolls First Winner</h2>Frankie Eddolls won the first Byng Of Vimy Trophy while playing for the RCAF training command team back in the season of 1942-43. It goes to the most gentlemanly player in the League.<h2>How The Race Goes</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-01373/1683663-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="582" height="239"></div><h2>TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 18</h2>Shawinigan 1 at Montreal 2<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Montreal: Kowalchuk (Achtymichuk. Cressman) 10.54Penalties: Achtymihuk 2.35. Clune 4.24. Amadio 9.56. Bownass 16.41, Fleming 19.45.<h3>Second Period</h3>2&mdash;Montreal Burnett (Boucher. Bradley) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.33Penalties: Clune 3.32. 15.21, Fleming 7.20.<h3>Third Period</h3>3&mdash;Shawinigan: Wray (Laforge. Bouchard) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.51Penalties: Fleming 2.42. minor, misconduct 7.23. Mantha 17.45 J. P. Denis 18.15.<h3>WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19</h3>Quebec 5 at Three River 6<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Three Rivers: Pepin 4.45.2&mdash;Quebec: Hayden (Blaine, Sabourln) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.013&mdash;Quebec: Hayden (Cherry) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.014&mdash;Three Rivers: Pearson (Anderson. Belisle) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.21Penalties: Sleaver 2.16 Mascot to 4.04. 18.49. Crozier misconduct 4.43. Kelly 7.12, Dzurko 12.56. Three Rivers bench (served by Johnson) 12.56.<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Quebec: Sleaver (Blaine, Labadie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.296&mdash;Three Rivers: Pepin (Thibault, Hannah) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.357&mdash;Three Rivers: Anderson (Hanna) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.068&mdash;Quebec,: Blaine (Teal, Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.09&mdash;Quebec: Hayden (Cherry. Teal &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.1010&mdash;Three Rivers: Leclerc (Pepin. Thibault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.4Penalties: Carter 3.33. Crozier 4.52<h3>Third Period</h3>11&mdash;Three Rivers; Leclerc (Repin, Thibault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.14Penalty: Mascotto 3.11.<h2>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20</h2>Montreal 4 at Chicoutimi 2<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Chicoutimi: Smrke (Hicks, Roy) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 1.252&mdash;Montreal: Burnett (Boucher) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 7.103&mdash;Montreal: Boucher (Burnett, Roche) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.284&mdash;Royals: Roche (Denis, Mosdell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.35<h3>Second Period</h3>5&mdash;Chicoutimi: Smrke (Perreault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.11Penalty: Harvey 3.14.<h3>Third Period</h3>6&mdash;Montreal: Balfour (Burnett) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.56Penalties: None.Shawinigan 3 at Quebec 5<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Shawinigan. Wray (Desaulniers. Denis) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 15.582&mdash;Quebec: Jacques Gagnon (Hillman, Teal) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.453&mdash;Shawinigan: Bouchard (Mekilok, Denis) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.90Penalties: Cossette 11.16. Crozier 17.10.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Quebec: Teal (Blaine. Jacques Gagnon) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.455&mdash;Quebec: Blaine (Jacques Gagnon) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 14.586&mdash;Quebec: Crozier (Hayden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.07Penalties: Cossette .45. Bouchard (major) .45. Johnston (served by Attwell) 2.31. Amadio 5.19. Hodgson 13.40 Hayden (major) 13.40.<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Quebec: Maxwell (Cossette. Labadie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 5.398&mdash;Shawinigan: Wray &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18.22Penalties: Teal 7.13, Denis 10.11 Jacques Gagnon 14.46 Bouchard 17.17<h2>SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23</h2>Chicoutimi 4 at Quebec 8<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Quebec: Blaine (Labadie. Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 4.242-&mdash;Quebec: Labadie (Cossette. Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.573&mdash;Quebec: Sabourin (O&rsquo;Ree, Hayden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.17Penalty: Hillman 16.09.<h3>Second Period</h3>4&mdash;Chicoutimi: Roy (Perreault. G. Rousseau) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; .365&mdash;Quebec: Sleaver (Hayden) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 13.016&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree (Maxwell, Labadie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 18 45Penalties: Perreault 2.51. Teal 6.56. Smrke 8.08, Mascotto 8.08. 11.51. 14.53<h3>Third Period</h3>7&mdash;Quebec: Maxwell (O&rsquo;Ree. Labadie) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 2.468&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leclair (Perreault. G. Rousseau) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 6.449&mdash;Quebec: O&rsquo;Ree (Labadie. Maxwell) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 12.0210&mdash;Chicoutimi: Leclair (Perreault, G. Rousseau) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 16.2011&mdash;Quebec: Sabourin (Hillman) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 17.0412&mdash;Chicoutimi: Glaude (Pichette, Harvey) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 19.12Penalties: Roy 7.13 R. RouSseau 15.21. Hayden major 15.21. Maseorto 15.28.Three Rivers 1 at Montreal 2<h3>First Period</h3>1&mdash;Three Rivers: Leclerc (Pepin, Thibeault) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 8.512&mdash;Montreal: Lund (Balfour, Denis) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 9.483&mdash;Montreal: Burnett (Boucher) &hellip;&hellip;&hellip; 10.37Penalties: Clune 15.56, Hanna 18.15. Collins 19.50<h3>Second Period</h3>Scoring: None.Penalties: Kelly 9.07 Mantha 9.07 Kowalchuk 15.31.<h3>Third Period</h3>Scoring&rsquo;None.Penalties: Collins 6.55, Balfour 12.11<h2>The Point Parade</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02331/1683656-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="590" height="957"></div><h2>GOALKEEPERS&rsquo; RECORD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03299/1683649-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="584" height="393"></div> &#9632;

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QUEBEC LEAGUE

<div class="byline">By AL PARSLEY</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0013-04" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-04268/1683701-1-eng-US/f0013-042.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">His Reports Are QlowingJean Marie Cossette</figcaption></div>MONTREAL. Que.&mdash;If he possessed a suner-sensitive transistor that might pick up casual conversations. Jean Marie Cossette&rsquo;s ears would be burning. It&rsquo;s ulnikely that the 23-year-old left-winger out of the small town called Ste. Genevieve de Batiscan, Que., quite realizes the high regard in which he&rsquo;s held by his bosses.A couple of months ago foreman Joe Crozier who coaches and plays and runs the office for the Quebec Aces said to yours truly in the visitors&rsquo; dressing room at the Montreal Forum: &ldquo;What do you think of Cossette? He&rsquo;s really matured now and he&rsquo;s having a great year. Why don&rsquo;t you write a piece about him one of these days?The author said &lsquo;Okay! Why don&rsquo;t you shoot me in some dope on the guy?&rdquo;It took some little time, but Crozier finally delivered &mdash; with a hearty vote of thanks to Lou Fusk, sports editor of The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, from both sides.The other night, after a game in Quebec, which the Aces lost incidentally, 6-4 to Chicoutimi Sagueneens, a group of scribes and Quebec club officials were holding the autopsy in the Aces&rsquo; office at the Coliseum. Gary Blaine had delivered the hattrick and Cossette had completed the scoring for the home forces.&ldquo;That was a picture goal Cossette scored,&rdquo; &mdash; remarked one news-hawk. &ldquo;Cossette is getting better every game. He&rsquo;s just about ready for the NHL right now,&rdquo; put in Dr. Bruce Crutchfield, president of the Aces. The doctor is never one to sell one of his own men short.<h2>Can Shoot, Skate, Check</h2>It would be snide to suggest that down in Quebec they are building up Cossette for a nice price in a deal with a major league hockey club, though such a dodge has been known in sundry places in sport.Verily Cossette now in his fourth season as a pro, all of same with Aces, is really finding himself as a well-schooled hockey journeyman. And there&rsquo;s a growing group of fans in the Ancient Capital who are ready to support Dr. Crutchfield in his convictions.At any rate Coach, Joe Crozier is ready to second the motion and add what is tantamount to a keynote speech on his own.&ldquo;He has been with us three years now,&rdquo; says Crozier. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t count the 1954-55 adventure when he was with us for only three games. And Cossette has shown improvement every season. For the first two years he was used only as a spare. Since he started playing as regular this season he has really shown himself as a comer.&ldquo;Cossette has everything. He is a good checker, a good skater and packs a real hard shot. While he&rsquo;s on the ice he seems to be on the puck at all times. He has finally come into his own &mdash; playing the hockey he is capable of, right up to his potential.&rdquo;&ldquo;To give you an idea of his value to our team, he is naturally a left-winger, but can play center or left wing at the asking.&ldquo;He is a good man at point on the power-play, too. I figure he&rsquo;s just about the most valuable man on our club. He is smart and rugged, but clean. I, too, figure Cossette is just about ready for the NHL.Quebec City hockey savants will recall, any time one gets batting the breeze about Camille Henry and other stars who have come through the mill in the Ancient Capital, that in his junior days Cossette was considered a better prospect than Jean Guy Gendron, like Henry now with New York Rangers.Cossette, who was 23 last October 31. began playing hockey with Ste. Anne de la Perade, the little village on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, famed for the tommy-cod (petits poissons). This was &ldquo;in Junior B or maybe something less glorified in rank in the Chambly Country League.He gradually worked his way up to Junior A and made the team at Three Rivers called the Reds or Flambeaux, coached by Jack Toupin, now mentor of the Three Rivers Lions, in the QHL. This was a time when junior hockey was enjoying its greatest boom in Quebec Province. Camille Henry was still a junior when Jean Marie broke in. In his second year in Junior A, Cossette fractured a shoulder, and though missing a full month of the schedule, wound up with 33 goals and 33 assists.<h2>Size Against Him</h2>A rap against him with big league scouts, is his size or lack of same. He&rsquo;s only 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; and weighs 155 pounds But his admirers believe that Cossette can overcome lack of avoirdupois and stature by his great desire.His first full year with Aces he bagged 13 goals and 25 assists in 60 games. Last year he didn&rsquo;t get enough work when Aces were over-staffed with stars in their rousing drive to the QHL title and the Edinburgh Trophy, symbolic of the Canadian minor pro championship. Used sparingly in only 39 games, he had two goals and four assists.In the first 45 games this season Cossette had logged 31 points made up of 16 goals and 15 assists. He had a hat-trick in there to grab the headlines for a day, and at his present gait, he&rsquo;ll turn in a very good account before the teams grind down to the playoffs in the Quebec circuit.<h2>On The Sidelines</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-05230/1683694-1-eng-US/f0013-052.jpg" title="f0013-05" width="310" height="330"><figcaption class="caption-body">Al Parsley</figcaption></div>While Royals staged their 2 second go-round in the Quebec League for five straight wins in the last two weeks &mdash; three of said triumphs on 2 foreign ice, players and brass were giving much of the credit to Charlie Hodge their great little goalie. Three of the five wins were one-goal performances by Hodge.Royals trounced Cataracts at Shawinigan Falls 4-1 and nosed out three Cats 2-1 at the Forum, and then last Sunday edged the Three Rivers Lions 2-1, in Montreal. The other wins for the Montrealers, in the string of five, were 7-4 over Aces at Quebec and 4-2 over the Sagueneens at Chicoutimi. Incidentally this last victory was Royals first over the Sags this in the Saguenay fortress this season.Guy Rousseau, Chicoutimi, is the only quadruple scorer in tbe QHL this season, but there have been 15 hat-tricks dished up. Lou Smrke Jacques Locas and Jackie Leclair have done the stunt for the Sags; Jean Paul Denis, Dick Bouchard, Claude Labrosse and Claude Laforge delivered for the Shawinigan Falls Catacracts; and Quebec Aces have had Kenny Hayden and Jacques Gagnon both on the tricycle twice with Gary Blaine and Jean Marie Cossette each tossing the trick once. The Lions at Trois-Riveres and Montral&rsquo;s Royals have each had only one triple-scorer &mdash; Danny Belisle for the former. Kelly Burnett for the latter club.When their regular goal keeper. Jacques Marcotte, was taken to Buffalo for an American League trial with the Bisons, the Trois Rivieres Lions brought in-Bob Senior from the Kingston CKLC&rsquo;s. Senior, a six-foot-giant with heft to go with such stature, looks to be largest in twine tenders to toil in the Quebec circuit since Bill &ldquo;Legs&rdquo; Fraser was doing the chores tor Ottawa Senators some years ago.He&rsquo;s a protoge of Eddie Shore, 7 who had him under special tutoring down at Springfield Mass., quite a stretch.It is said to be Shore&rsquo;s notion that a youngster with good eyes and the proper reflexes of high speed can be turned into a Grade A net-minder, provided of course the kid possesses certain aptitudes for the job and exhibits keen desire. Jacques Toupin. Lions coach, appeared to be pretty keen about Senior after Lions won their first two games with him manning their net.Toupin also brought up a couple of kids from Trois Rivieres&rsquo; Junior B squad, the Reds. Andre Pleau, a left-winger and Stan Konrad, a right-winger. By next weekend The Lions also 7 expect to have Leon Rochefort and Russell Malone from Guelph Biltmores. And so Toupin will be able to send out an entire junior line that formerly played for Three Rivers Reds &mdash; Pleau Malone and Rochefort. Andre Piche, president of Lions is hopeful that the appearance of this trio will needle the gates at Three Rivers. Since it appears that Lions won&rsquo;t be making the Quebec League Playoffs, a little stimulant to the exchequer would be welcome indeed.The Royals are likely to finish out the QHL season minus the services of their veteran trainer Andy Galley. Rotund Andy is being sought by the baseball Royals. As this edition of The Hockey News was headed press will Galley was being interviewed by the Montreal Baseball Club president Butch Bouchard and general manager Rene Le-myre. Since Andy has never had a Florida Spring vacation, that trip to Dodger own near Vero Beach, looms most attractive. &#9632;

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Cossette, Back Woods Kid, Steps Up Front As Big Tod Prospect

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div>STRATFORD, Ont.&mdash;Senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey clubs in Ontario, and they include those in the eastern OHA and the NOHA-OHA groups, are all depending on the playoffs to take them out of the red, but two of them are destined to miss the gravy train, because only four of the six NOHA-OHA clubs qualify, for the playoffs. In the eastern Ontario group the situation is different in that all four clubs figure in the playoffs and it is only a matter of position as to who plays who.Decreased attendance and the price paid for talent this season has resulted in every club showing a healthy deficit. Even Soo Greyhounds, with an increased average attendance 400 better than last season, are expected to report a deficit and it could be fairly substantial. Players&rsquo; salaries range from a low of $25 a game to as high as $200 a week.Elsewhere in both groups attendances have dropped considerably, and while the battle for the third and fourth playoff berths in the NOHA-OHA has developed into a torrid race, right now it looks as though the two southern Ontario clubs, Chatham Maroons and Windsor Bulldogs may be left holding the well-known bag.Kitchener Dutchmen, of course, have made a runaway for first place and Soo Greyhounds are certainties for second place, but Sudbury Wolves, in third place, are only two points up on North Bay Trappers, who, in turn, are but one point ahead of the Chatham Maroons, and the same margin exists between Chatham and the Windsor Buuldogs.In the eastern Ontario group, Belleville McFarlands have clinched first place, with Pembroke Lumber Kings 11 points to the rear; Kingston CKLCs are another 11 points behind Pembroke and Cornwall trails Kingston by one lone point.<h2>Ottawa Valley To Meet Maritimes Champs</h2>The eastern group, however, is up in arms over the OHA edict that their winners meet the winners of the northern group of the NOHA in the first round of the provincial playoffs, but grudgingly agreed to abide by the ruling. However, they refuse to curtail their own group playoffs to best-of-five series, in order that the playoffs will not be delayed, and insist that they be granted the same privilege of enlarging their playoffs to best-of-seven series, the same as those decided upon for the NOHA-QHA playoffs.Heretofore, the northern section of the NOHA met the southern section in the first playoff round, while the Western and eastern Ontario group winners clashed. The NOHA playoffs always resulted in a pushover series for the Southern winners, and the reason probably for pitting the eastern Ontario winners against the winners of the northern section of the NOHA was ordered in order to accommodate the longer playoff series in the newly organized NOHA-OHA group this season.It will mean heavy travelling expenses for the eastern and northern winners. The northern group consists of teams in Kapuskasing, Timmins, Porcupine and Abitibi.The Ottawa Valley league survivors, embracing among others Courtaids and Kingcots, are scheduled to travel to the Maritimes in the other bracket of the Allan Cup playdowns, which would leave the winners of that series slated to meet the survivors of the eastern, western and northern Ontario winners, to determine which team travels to western Canada for the Allan Cup.What the future holds in store for senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; hockey in Ontario is anybody&rsquo;s guess. North Bay Trappers threatened earlier in the season to fold, owing to a hefty deficit in operational costs, and only a canvass for funds and a brisk stock-selling campaign saved the situation.It is no secret that attendance at Kitchener, Chatham and Windsor games in the south have dwindled seriously, and the same applies in Cornwall, Pembroke, North Bay Sudbury which means that the team sponsors in those cities are taking financial licking, and it could depend on the extent of club resources whether all the Ontario teams will be back for the 1958-59 season. &#9632;

OHA Seniors See Red Ink Flood; Playoffs Can Brighten It Up

<div class="byline">By GEO H. CARVER</div>BELLEVILLE. Ont.&mdash;The OHA powers that be have cast the winners of the Eastern Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; League and those of the Porcupine Mines League, as the principals in the first act of the Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; playdowns drama.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-01369/1683756-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="267" height="397"><figcaption class="caption-body">Barton Bradley</figcaption></div>And the Eastern league moguls at a special meeting made no bones of their opinion that the actors were definitely miscast. They told OHA president Lorne Cooke of Kingston in no uncertain terms that they were not satisfied with the decision, and that the winners of the OHA-NOHA loop should take on the far nothern champions.They also fired critical guns at the OHA decision to make the series with the &ldquo;Porkies&rdquo; three of five, but relented when informed the series would open in the south with two games there and the remaining three if necessary on Porcupine League stamping grounds.They refused point-blank to reduce their league finals to a best-of-three instead of seven to accommodate the OHA-NOHA playoffs &mdash; and that is the way it will be with Belleville McFarlands meeting either Cornwall or Kingston in a best-of-seven semis, and Pembroke Lumber Kings taking on the third place team in a similar affair. The semi-finals start in Belleville and Pembroke on Feb. 28th The best-of-seven finals get under way on March 13.<h2>Kingston Battles To Third</h2>The Kingston CKLC&rsquo;s showing a remarkable resurgence have battled their way to a one-point lead in third place over the Cornwall Chevies and it will be a battle down to the last ditch to decide the ultimate third and fourth place occupants.The Whitby Dunlops, who have been replaced at the top of the league standing by the Belleville McFarlands will not take part in the playoffs nor will they derive any financial benefit from the playoffs pool. The Ottawa Canadiens, defeated in their last two starts, cannot overtake the Macs for the top slot, but could by virture of their being bonused three points for a win, two for the first tie and one for the second end up in second slot. The Baby Habs played 36 games in the Eastern League schedule as did the Whitby DunlopsIn the scoring department the McFarlands smooth center Barton Bradley and Billy Colvin of Kingston are in a tooth-and-nail fight for the title with Bradley having a two points lead on the Kingston ace with two games to play. Colvins is the top goal-getter with 32 while the Macs playing coach Ike Hildebrand leads the assists-getters with 42.The McFarlands are favored to win the Eastern Group title with the Kitchener-Waterloo heavily favored to take the OHA-NOHA honors. Western Ontario opinion is&lsquo;the Dutchmen have a much stronger club than was defeated by the Whitby &ldquo;Cinderellas&rdquo; for the Ontario championship last season, and are rated to take the all-Ontario title.Eastern senior moguls do not agree and prefer to discover the proof of the pudding in the eating. They recall that a lot of western Ontario hockey experts &ldquo;laughed when the Dunlops sat down to play&rdquo; last season, and freely express the opinion that, history might repeat itself.However there is the far northern threat, but hockey men both here and in the west are of the opinion the northerners so not stack up with the southern Ontario senior &ldquo;A&rdquo; clubs. That, too, is another hockey pudding that must be tested on the table. &#9632;

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Playoff Orders Ire Eastern OHA Senior A Group

When Maurice was having his hockey heyday, nobody dreamed he would someday play on the same team with his little brother &hellip; nor that Henri would become one of the biggest single threats to &ldquo;The Rocket&rsquo;s&rdquo; sterling records!Now, in this week&rsquo;s Saturday Evening Post, you&rsquo;ll learn how Henri fulfilled a lifelong ambition by playing next to his famous brother &hellip; how Maurice almost stopped him early in his career &hellip; and why coach Blake wouldn&rsquo;t let them play together when Henri made the CanadiensAnd you&rsquo;ll find out why 36-year-old Maurice says his 22-year-old brother has added years to his career &mdash; all in &ldquo;Fury on Ice&rdquo;, the straight from the rink story in this week&rsquo;s Post.IN ALL, 7 articles, 4 stories, 2 serials, many cartoons.Get your copy today!<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02286/1683787-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="492" height="231"></div>A CURTIS MAGAZINE &#9632;

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The Amazing Story Behind Hockey’s Famous Brother Act

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0015-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0015-01345/1683818-1-eng-US/f0015-012.jpg"></div>Solution In Next Week&rsquo;s Issue<h2>ACROSS</h2>1&mdash;Pictured Chicago player3&mdash;Nickname of a former Detroit coach.8&mdash;Parched.9&mdash;This player figured in the recent Detroit &mdash; Chicago trade.13&mdash;N.H.L. team with whom Yank Boyd once performed.14&mdash;Number of coach&rsquo;s Mickoski has had since joining the N.H.L.17&mdash;Name given of an N.H.L. mentor.18&mdash;Initials of McNeill of the Red Wings.19&mdash;First two letters of Iliad.20&mdash;Pictured star played 14 games with this N.H.L. team, (abbr.)21&mdash;Month in which 15 down celebrates his birthday (abbr.)23&mdash;Indefinite article.24&mdash;One of the Black Hawks answers to this.26&mdash;Initials of Slowinski, ex-Ranger forward.27&mdash;Former Boston netminder.30&mdash;&ldquo;Turk&rdquo; Broda&rsquo;s given name31&mdash;Another name for &ldquo;Buddy&rdquo; Boone.32&mdash;Where players keep in shape by playing handball (abbr.)<h2>Down</h2>1&mdash;Mrs. Gerry Toppazzini.2&mdash;Given name of 27 across.4&mdash;Lou Fontinato could be described as the Rangers &ldquo;Man.&rdquo;5&mdash;Short for first name of MacNab, former Springfield star.6&mdash;Denotes number worn by Nick Mickowski.7&mdash;Gerry James&rsquo; second name.10&mdash;One (Scottish)11&mdash;Initials of Winnipeg&rsquo;s coach12&mdash;Parker MacDonald hails from this province (abbr.)15&mdash;Played one game for Boston in January replacing Leo LaBine.16&mdash;An N.H.L. coach.17&mdash;Mrs. Marcel Paille was one before her marriage.18&mdash;Spent last season with Seattle called Barton.22&mdash;Initials of Stasiuk of Boston.25&mdash;Name given Sweeney of Providence Reds.27&mdash;Bronco Horvath was born in this month (abbr.)28&mdash;Pictured star shoots this way (abbr.)29&mdash;Officials use this to give signals.30&mdash;West Africa (abbr.)<h2>Last Week&rsquo;s Crossword Solution</h2>ACross1&mdash;MaeDonalr7&mdash;Nose8&mdash;Rangers12&mdash;Scar13&mdash;Milt14&mdash;Ten15&mdash;Len17&mdash;R.W.18&mdash;A.S.19&mdash;Des.20&mdash;R.R.22&mdash;Sask.23&mdash;O.L.24&mdash;IT.25&mdash;Wiring29&mdash;SullivanDown1&mdash;Marshall2&mdash;Canadiens3&mdash;One4&mdash;Norm5&mdash;Assists6&mdash;Le9&mdash;A.C.10&mdash;G.R.11&mdash;Stanowski16&mdash;Earl17&mdash;&mdash;Resign19&mdash;D.A.20&mdash;Ross21&mdash;Phil25&mdash;W.L.26&mdash;R.I.27&mdash;IV28&mdash;Na. &#9632;

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Hockey X-Word Puzzle

<div class="byline">By HUGH BOWMAN</div>GUELPH, Gut.&mdash;Hamilton has never won an Ontario junior championship: in fact it&rsquo;s never been in the league final. This booming industrial city&rsquo;s chief claims to hockey fame rests with the old Hamilton Tiger, the fabled &ldquo;Old Men of the Mountain&rdquo; who took five straight senior championships from 1944 to 1948. There is a growing feeling of optimism however in the Ontario lakehead city that the rocket fired by Ken Soble some five seasons ago may get off ground this year.Hamilton Tiger-Cubs, with the exception of the near-disastrous 1955-56 season have been playoff contenders but they&rsquo;ve never quite managed to make it to the final round. Hamilton fans may he disappointed again this year but these same fans who take sports seriously are beginning to take Ti-Cubs chances seriously.They have reason to. Gerry Brown&rsquo;s well-balanced club shook off a mid-winter slump and past the mid-way mark in February had run up an impressive nine game unbeaten streak. They had whittled leading St Catharines Teepees 12 points lead in half and were offering Teepees the first serious threat in months to St. Kitt&rsquo;s domination of the upper rung.<h2>No More Against Teeps</h2>They appeared destined for a second-place finish however. Despite the inroads they had made on Teepees lead, they were fast running out of games. At the time or writing they trailed St Kitts by six points and had six games remaining to Teepees seven. Biggest disadvantage was the fact that they had no remaining games left with the Teeps.In making their run at Teepees however Tiger-Cubs broke up a tense three way battle for second place. While their chances of overtaking Teenees has reached the mathematical stage, their chances of dropping lower than second were also in th same area of conjecture. St Alichael&rsquo;s with a game in hand had dropped five points back in third place while Marlboros with the same number of names remaining were fourth, seven points back of Cubs.Cubs have been improving so steadily that three of them have recently had whirls with the rent Detroit Red Wings. Forwards Murray Oliver and smith and defenseman Dave madio were all impressive the faster comnany. The league play of these three along with the excellent goalkeeping of A11-Star Carl Wetzel and the improved scoring proves of Sullivan have been the keyfactors in Cubs rise to prominenceThe way they&rsquo;re going right now this could well be cubs year to fix another Hamailton star in the hockey firmament, If they make it, it will be the fulfillment of a dream and a lot of hard work on the part owner Ken Soble, General Manager Syd Bibbey and coach Gerry Brown. &#9632;

Cubs Suddenly Become Tigers, By Threatening Teeps’ Throne

<div class="byline">By CHICK APPEL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0192/1683887-1-eng-US/f00c4-012.jpg" title="f00C4-01" width="301" height="310"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0291/1683880-1-eng-US/f00c4-022.jpg" title="f00C4-02" width="307" height="316"></div>STRATFORD. Ont.&mdash;When a veteran hockey authority like Tommy Lockhart, president of the United States Amateur Hockey Association, places the stamp of approval on Whitby Dunlops, Canada&rsquo;s representatives in the world hockey championship tourney, opening in Oslo, Norway, Feb. 28, by predicting that they will regain the title, he must be taken seriously.AH of which is highly encouraging to Canadians and the Canadians soldiers stationed in West Germany with the NATO forces, who will travel to Oslo by special train and cheer for the Whitby team.Two of the Canadian players. Jack McKenzie and George Gosselin, recruited from the Kitchener Dutchmen and North Bay Trappers respectively for the Oslo tourney, were injured in a recent game against the Swedish team, but the report is that there is nothing alarming. Both of them will be in the thick of things when the chips are down at Oslo.The United States team, one of the favorites in the tournament although their record in exhibition games in Canada and Europe has not been too impressive, was dealt a body blow, when two of their players were injured during a game in Switzerland, and one of them may be sidelined for the balance of the lour. Defenceman Ed Kirrane of Brookline, Mass, sustained a broken wrist and may not be recovered sufficiently to engage in the championship series. Forward Paul Johnson of St. Paul, Mann., who has been suffering from a stomach ulcer, is almost certain to don the blades when the title tourney gets under way.Whitby Dunlops&rsquo; record to date in exhibition games in England. Sweden and Norway should add weight to Tommy Lockhart&rsquo;s prediction, since they have won all ten of their games and five of them via the shutout method. In all they have scored 92 goals while having but eight scored against them, and their last three games resulted in whitewash jobs.Veteran Long John Henderson, who was credited with being the main factor for Whitby Dunlops Allan Cup success last season, was counted upon to don the goal pads for the Canadians when the tourney starts, but the youthful Roy Edwards has been the netminder in the last three shutout victories, and there are those on this side of the pond who figure that he may get the nod over Henderson.Incidentally, Dunlops are still angling for the services of Ralph Hocking. Kitchener defenceman, for their competition in the world tournament at Oslo. Norway, starting the last day of this month.As the story goes, when Wren Blair, manager of the Whitby team, failed to pry Hosking loose from Kitchener before his team departed for overseas, he delegated the authority to Bob Hesketh, sports columnist and public relations man for the firm sponsoring the Whitby team, who has no official connection with the world hockey tourney. When that strategy failed, Hesketh or Blair wisely decided to make further approach through the proper channels, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, and from here out George Dudley, CAHA secretary-manager, is carrying the ball.Dudley contacted the Kitchener club again in renewal of Whitby&rsquo;s request, and the Kitchener club met the same night, and the resultant vote of the executive members is said to have been in favor of retaining Hosking for their club.At this late date and with the group playoffs in the offing, the Kitchener club cannot be criticized unnecessarily, because they report not having any concrete proposal from either the Whitby club or the CAHA regarding a replacement they want for Hosking to protect themselves for the playoffs. Then too, the Kitchener club figures to be close to $10,000 in the red by the time the regular schedule ends. Their only salvation lies in the playoffs, and they reason justifiably why should they jeopardize, their team&rsquo;s chances by breaking up a winning combination.Getting back to the Whitby Dunlops, their 13-0 whitewash; chore done on the Swedish team in an exhibition game, and on an outdoor rink, has been the best shot in arm Canadian hockey fans have received since the team left this country. Victories of 6-2 over Harringay Racers, 8-l over Brighton Tigers, and 14-1 and 16-1 wins over the Canadian RCAF team stationed in England do not mean nearly as much. Coupled with these results are the 7-6 and 5-4 victories by Wembley Lions and Harringay Racers over the United States national team.Based on these results and Whitby&rsquo;s win over the us team in Canada, it would lead one to believe that Russia and Czechosiovakia remain the chief threats to the Canadian team&rsquo;s ambition to bring the world hockey title back to their native laud.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f00c4-0386/1683873-1-eng-US/f00c4-032.jpg" title="f00C4-03" width="1078" height="1384"><figcaption class="caption-body">Will Start In GoalJohn Henderson</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Dutchies Decide Against Bid By Dunlops To Sign Hosking

MONTREAL, Que.&mdash;The Canadian Broadcasting Corpora lion will televise the world tournament match between Canada and Russia on Monday, March 10th The game will be played in Oslo, Norway on March 9th. The game will be kiniscopel and flown back to Canada to be shown the following day.Meanwhile, it has been announced by the organizational committee for the championships that all 6,000 seats for the game have been sold.Only a few seats are left for the Norway-Sweden game Feb. 28, which marks the official opening of the tournament. Eight countries will take part in the championship &mdash; Russia, Canada, the United States, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland and Norway. &#9632;

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